A 9.43 ± 0.07Ã--1020 kg mass crashing at 10 miles per second would probably blow most of the atmosphere off
does Slashcode not know how to handle either this 10^20 exponent operator, or this one 10**20? Or is your keyboard set up to post some non-Latin characters?
Whatever about bloody Slashcode!
do you care to quantify "most of the atmosphere"? My back of the thumbnail estimate is that the 487km diameter Ceres would carve an initial crater some 5000km in diameter, which would take out (calculates) some 20% of the planet's surface area. Let's be optimistic and say that the impact takes out 50% of the atmosphere. That'll reduce the surface pressure, after a year or so for the debris to fall out, to about 45 times normal Earth atmospheric pressure. Not enough.
and Ceres is largely water
50% by volume ; about 25% by mass. Not in the normal range for "largely". Yes, it's still significantly more water than on the Earth's surface, but I think you've got more atmospheric skimming to do.
Perhaps if you can arrange for your interplanetary hauliers to aerobrake Ceres through Venus' atmosphere several times, to tear more chunks of it out? 4 or 5 passes should thin the atmosphere down adequately.
Won't work.. they've left pictures all over the pyramids, stone monoliths, etc.. and they didn't write on stone because they were "primitive" but so that future generations would READ it, and nobody's figured out what they really mean yet ,
Bullshit.
Go read up on Champollion and Young. We've been able to read the hieroglyphics on the Egyptian pyramids etc for nearly 2 centuries now. The fact that they don't talk about our alien overlord octopii from Alpha Centauri is disappointing to crackpots who want their Japanese tentacle-rape cartoon fantasies to be real history, but that is something in the eye of the crackpot, not what is carved into the pyramids.
If you have an alternative decoding for the Egyptian hieroglyphics, which decodes a substantial proportion of already-known hieroglyph texts, feel free to publish it. Also feel free to have your work torn apart by other workers on hieroglyphs, searching for your errors. That's the science side of archaeology.
If you have a decoding for the Phaistos Disc, feel free to publish it. But with only one sample of that script (if it is a script), it is going to be fraught to demonstrate that your decoding is correct.
(I don't know the current state of research on Meso-American hieroglyphs. If I cared, I'd research it.)
Expensive hashes are only good for weak passwords. Users shouldn't have week passwords.
And as someone who, from your tone of speech, considers themselves a uberleet, ultra-secure geek, who never uses any password that is less than 36 characters of mixed upper-case, lower-case, digits and punctuation, which passwords never use more than 3 consecutive characters that appear anywhere in a dictionary of any Latin script language, and who spends 3 hours every day solely on changing passwords on sites he visits once a month or more often...
The fact that you make a spelling mistake in a 4-character string of symbols illustrates perfectly why "luser" level users will continue to use "password" as a password on every site they ever log onto.
Dammit, 9 in the evening and the bloody ISP is doing it's usual thing of dropping connections every few minutes. Where was I 5 minutes ago when I had a connection?
Since you seem to be interested in hiring,
Not really. I go to a job ; when I arrive on site (not a minute before), I discover which companies of international sub-contractors I'm working with on this job. Then I discover which particular staff I'm supervising on this shift, then which staff on the other shift (12 hours on/ 12 hours off for them ; 24x7 for me ; you have no option but to place some reliance on these people), then over the next few weeks I discover what this crew are like, until they get crew changed for other strangers.
I don't get any choice in who I work with, except to say "this one is Not Required Back" ; having almost lost my home when I was first "NRB'd," that's something I'm reluctant to do. Generally you work to try to drag the contractors up to standard, because screaming and shouting isn't going to get them changed any sooner.
I rarely meet these people again. I almost always get requests from them to "Friend2 on Facebook or LinkedIn, which I never respond to.
Resume tells a lot. Be sure to call some of the places they worked and see if they would hire them back or not.
I don't get to see resumes, since I don't get to choose staff. Most resumes are "went to school ; went to university ; joined current company." Even for 20-year people (mine says essentially that). Then there is a list of places worked and companies worked for (150 different clients for me, I think ; I've not looked at my CV for four or 5 years).
Standard operating procedure, insisted on by head office, is always "No, we don't provide references, positive or negative." (You get sued less often that way.) Then they say, "No, we don't know if that person worked for this company, and if we did know, we wouldn't say so." There is a lot of international tax avoidance by these companies, so it is normal for actual employment records to be held by a company in a different country to the one in which invoices are raised, and a different country to the one in which invoices are settled.
Hiring in this industry is almost entirely by personal contact. If you know that someone is good at their job (you'll only know this by working with them), and that they're looking to move employer, then you give them your business card with your Boss's name on it, and tell the Boss to expect a phone call.
(There are freelance, self-employed, personnel. I know plenty. I don't have the foggiest idea of how they get jobs. Thinking about it, I suspect that they use personal contacts too. I certainly know some I'd never consider working with again, some I do actually personally recommend, and some for whom it's "Meh")
Sorry - we've just decided which house to buy, and the wife keeps distracting me with questions. Got to go.
I don't think so, though I@m not at all clear on this "test out" concept that you're hanging on. It may be that your courses (I've already forgotten what the original courses under discussion were) are pure knowledge courses - you either know it or you don't. "Law" or "History of Business Bullshit Administration", that sort of thing. However, in the subject I work with - I deal with 20-30 relative newcomers to the industry every year, all with degrees, though which continent from varies greatly - really does seem to require practice at examining the materials. During a degree course, you'd examine 500 to 1000 samples, perhaps half of which would be relevant to our industry ; during your first month in active employment (not on training courses), you'll double that experience ; second month, same again... experience really does count, because there are fewer misleading specimens that are novel to you.
Someone could "test out" (take exams only, without the thousand-odd hours of laboratory work?), arrive in the industry "fully qualified", and be absolutely useless. It would be like sitting in a crashing helicopter and expecting the guy blocking your escape route to know how to not panic as he drowns, because he's "tested out" on helicopter crashing instead of taking the practical course (where you get a mild drowning).
Could you "test out" on a course that included a continuous assessment element requiring you to do collaborative work in a team with others? You might be able to do the appropriate coursework in one assessment, with one team, but you'd be working to their speed (plus, of course, whatever other courses they are doing), not yours - that is one of the points of collaborative work, of course. And when you wanted to move on 30 seconds later to starting the next project, the project details wouldn't be released to you until the timetabled start date in several weeks.
Keep in mind the courses weren't available to me as I wanted to just test out.
So... this was some special arrangement for essentially sitting the exams without taking the courses? But how would that help you to graduate any quicker? You enter the subject, and you take the first year exams (which are released at the end of first year ; "Gentlefolk, you may turn your papers over"). You hand the papers in (the question papers and your answer scripts), wait a few weeks to get the results of those, and if you passed the appropriate first year courses, you get to choose your second year courses. The exams for those are released 50-odd weeks later, "Gentlefolk, you may turn your papers over". Lather, rinse and repeat ; you've graduated in the same time period as everyone else.
Ah... I checked back. The subject of discussion was at "a private German economics and business university." So, a school for "white collar" liars, cheats and thieves. Of course they're going to be angry about being bilked from thousands of dollars of their fees. They certainly do not want their students proving that they've learned their lessons in thievery and deceit. The guy will likely end up as a politician (that's not a compliment).
If you know the material you can test out of that course (for a fee of course). If you don't, they'll teach you and if you are bright enough to get it, you'll pass the exam (for much more than the testing fee). Should be the same thing at a college. Pay for services rendered.
And if the general course specifies that you WILL do so much lab work ; you WILL present a lab book with so much work on the Teaching Collection (which is not the Exam Collection), you WILL present This, That, And the Other Collaborative Projects, each within 5 weeks of the release date of the project's details, and no project collaboration to be done with members of a previous collaborating team. (That was hard
"Yes I understand the instructions" is almost always a lie. No, seriously. This is why drills and rehearsals are performed for important procedures.
The password list will be out of date. It will always be out of date. The procedures will be out of date. They will always be out of date.
Technical writing is indeed a useful skill. Why are you assuming that the recipients are skilled in technical reading? That needs to be specified and tested for. Repeatedly. People's abilities change over time. As do the systems you're interacting with.
Your final 3 points seem to be predicated upon the concept that your bank manager and lawyer will always be the same people (they do retire) ; you're also assuming that they're honourable people. I can see those foundations crumbling from here. At the very least, the password list is going to have to be encrypted, to protect you from them. At which point we're back to the original problem.
Friends you trust, whose technical ability you also trust, are probably a safer investment. People who would understand why, if Mr A has the password, and Mrs B has the encrypted file with the interesting stuff in it, then those data remain separate until needed. Even then, you're not fully protected - maybe you need a third friend in a different country, who carries the inner password. And who doesn't know Mssrs A and B very well.
Yeah, they haven't killed many, but we've let them affect the everyday lives of millions if not billions of people around the world. Just because they've killed maybe 10,000 people [to be generous].
The proxy armies of Al Quaeda (mostly from some country called "America" ; who fell for their politician's lies and have since been led around by the nose by Al Quaeda) have killed many more people than Al Quaeda themselves. When the proxy wars (Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq) are added up, the body count is more likely approaching a million.
Never the less, you can claim that they never performed their services since you didn't attend all of those classes, therefore they are not entitled to that money. No services rendered. Hope you win.
I think you're on pretty thin ice with that sort of argument. The classes were available to you ; whether or not you chose to attend is your choice.
Look at a counter example : a slack student attends a course with 1000 hours of lectures, tutorials and labs in total. Those are timetabled through the year and carried out. Mr Slack Student doesn't attend more than the minimum of required lectures/ tutorials or labs (when I was a college, lectures weren't monitored, but tutorials were all "pass round the sheet, sign with date and time" and labs had signing-in/ signing-out books because chemicals or valuable equipment were involved). "since Mr Slack Student didn't attend all of those classes, therefore they are not entitled to that money. No services rendered."
Actually, that now sounds so nonsensical... did you actually write what you meant to say? In any sane situation, what matters if if they go to the extent of timetabling the lectures, booking the theatres, building and supply the laboratories ; whether you attend or not, they've provided the service ; your fault for non-attendance, not theirs.
Their graduate level was what we did as undergraduates at Maryland.
Who does accreditation auditing in Maryland. Or GW? It sounds as if someone has (had) got something seriously wrong, and one course is (was) badly mis-described. Both courses should be undergraduate, or post-graduate ; but not one of each. That's one of the things that external examiners are required to check up on when you do your viva.
Actually, it means that those of us that were adopted are immune to the Grandfather Paradox,
Everyone has grandparents, even if they more resemble baboons than they resemble humans. Having grandchildren is optional ; having grandparents is not optional.
Knowing who your biological grandparents are is also optional.
and thus, the only ones that can time travel.
Check you passport - I think you were given an exemption from the law of gravity. Step off any convenient tall structure to check your exemption.
What is critical about pointing out that a manufacturer is lying through their teeth? That is default behaviour for a manufacturer. Any manufacturer.
That a particular manufacturer claims "we don't do Nasty Thing X," is only to be expected. Lying is expected behaviour for any manufacturer, or any other type of corporation. Didn't you read your marketing handouts?
"HOA" is "Home Owner's Agreement," or something similar?
Sounds to me like something whose very existence would lower property values in an area. I'm looking at moving at the moment (OK, the wife etc etc), and I'd consider the existence of such an agreement to devalue a property by 10 of thousands of £££.
Actually, I'm not sure that I'd agree to such an agreement at all.
Not untue. But if you look back at the list of suggestions (roof-top solar ; wind power) then by definition you are looking at people who are willing to put the solar panels in their back yard (well, on the sun-facing aspects of the roof, probably requiring temporary scaffolding in the back yard) and to put a windmill on a pole in the back yard.
(Which may work in America, but wouldn't work for me - I live in an apartment, and don't either own a roof or have full control of the back yard.)
While it is possible, with sufficient capital, to make houses that can be permanently off-grid, it's expensive. However, to produce enough power to run a fridge/freezer, a computer and a single air conditioner is a much more realistic prospect, which would considerably mitigate the effects of grid-power loss.
I do wonder... how did cities like Washington get built in the couple of centuries of their existence before the invention of the air conditioner? I've not spent much time learning the details of foreign history, and I've never heard this question addressed. I suppose that there were annual migrations of workers ("transhumance") from the habitable Northern States to the uninhabitable South to work on building the cities during the winter. Then when the South became uninhabitable in the summer, they'd all move back north again.
Must have made it difficult to prosecute the Civil War. Or was that after the invention of the AC?
(HINT : I may have different interpretations of "uninhabitable" to most reporters on this subject. I've lived and worked without AC at 48deg (Centigrade, of course) ; it isn't fun, but you can do it.)
So... sea-level wise, you don't have much to worry about for one to one-and-a-half centuries. Confidence inspiring. Slightly less urgent things to consider are whether the routes of services (road, rail, pipelines, pylons) have any vulnerable dips that might need routing around. As sea-level rises, are there harbour facilities that will need to be moved, or just plain built ; and how will that affect the economics of the area.
If you're close to an ocean, including along a large river valley, then you've a literally astronomical consideration of whether you'll get hit by tsunami from a meteorite impact in that ocean basin. 44m is a healthy degree of freeboard though. A more terrestrial consideration is the stability of the piles of glacial debris on the continental slopes ocean-ward of you : that is fundamentally what caused the "Storegga Slide" which washed low-lying areas of the coast around here about 7500BC and 5000 BC (the waves washed up the Rhine Valley and across Belgium). You'll have to do your own research on that - I don't know about the structure of the ice sheets offshore from the St Lawrence estuary, or from Vancouver area. But with my "geologist" hat on (it says "ÑÐбÐ", which is a joke that only works with Russians of a certain age and probably won't pass through SlashCode unmangled), I'd say that the idea is worth some examination. I'd start by finding the local university geology department (or amateur geology club ; an adult-education study group, perhaps?) and seeing if someone else has already taken an interest in the topic.
Man, tell me about it. Here in Chicago we've got the Japanese Longhorn beetle, Asian carp and zebra mussels wreaking havoc on our ecosystem.
You're forgetting the most destructive invasive alien species of the lot - an anthropoid primate introduced from East Africa which has for certain devastated the local flora and is quite likely for decimating the fauna about 10000 years ago. And which look to continue with it's hugely destructive ways until it makes the environment uninhabitable for itself as well as anything else.
Just because the invasive alien species wreaking havoc on your ecosystem includes you, doesn't mean that it's not an alien invasive species that is wreaking havoc on your ecosystem. And just because the havoc has been repeatedly wreaked hundreds of years ago and thousands of years ago, doesn't make it any the less havoc.
I'll go and RTFA now. Sounds like it could be interesting, if not terribly important.
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OK, with you so far.
does Slashcode not know how to handle either this 10^20 exponent operator, or this one 10**20? Or is your keyboard set up to post some non-Latin characters?
Whatever about bloody Slashcode!
do you care to quantify "most of the atmosphere"? My back of the thumbnail estimate is that the 487km diameter Ceres would carve an initial crater some 5000km in diameter, which would take out (calculates) some 20% of the planet's surface area. Let's be optimistic and say that the impact takes out 50% of the atmosphere. That'll reduce the surface pressure, after a year or so for the debris to fall out, to about 45 times normal Earth atmospheric pressure. Not enough.
50% by volume ; about 25% by mass. Not in the normal range for "largely". Yes, it's still significantly more water than on the Earth's surface, but I think you've got more atmospheric skimming to do.
Perhaps if you can arrange for your interplanetary hauliers to aerobrake Ceres through Venus' atmosphere several times, to tear more chunks of it out? 4 or 5 passes should thin the atmosphere down adequately.
Terraforming isn't as easy as it looks. Probably.
Now I know the answer : dead from the neck up.
Good ; one less company to waste time considering.
But they tell each other "harder, harder ; faster, faster" in 27 different translations into English!
Bullshit.
Go read up on Champollion and Young. We've been able to read the hieroglyphics on the Egyptian pyramids etc for nearly 2 centuries now. The fact that they don't talk about our alien overlord octopii from Alpha Centauri is disappointing to crackpots who want their Japanese tentacle-rape cartoon fantasies to be real history, but that is something in the eye of the crackpot, not what is carved into the pyramids.
If you have an alternative decoding for the Egyptian hieroglyphics, which decodes a substantial proportion of already-known hieroglyph texts, feel free to publish it. Also feel free to have your work torn apart by other workers on hieroglyphs, searching for your errors. That's the science side of archaeology.
If you have a decoding for the Phaistos Disc, feel free to publish it. But with only one sample of that script (if it is a script), it is going to be fraught to demonstrate that your decoding is correct.
(I don't know the current state of research on Meso-American hieroglyphs. If I cared, I'd research it.)
And as someone who, from your tone of speech, considers themselves a uberleet, ultra-secure geek, who never uses any password that is less than 36 characters of mixed upper-case, lower-case, digits and punctuation, which passwords never use more than 3 consecutive characters that appear anywhere in a dictionary of any Latin script language, and who spends 3 hours every day solely on changing passwords on sites he visits once a month or more often ...
The fact that you make a spelling mistake in a 4-character string of symbols illustrates perfectly why "luser" level users will continue to use "password" as a password on every site they ever log onto.
Or were you trying to be funny?
Why? The original film was sufficiently stupid for decades of not being punished by a "prequal"
Not really. I go to a job ; when I arrive on site (not a minute before), I discover which companies of international sub-contractors I'm working with on this job. Then I discover which particular staff I'm supervising on this shift, then which staff on the other shift (12 hours on/ 12 hours off for them ; 24x7 for me ; you have no option but to place some reliance on these people), then over the next few weeks I discover what this crew are like, until they get crew changed for other strangers.
I don't get any choice in who I work with, except to say "this one is Not Required Back" ; having almost lost my home when I was first "NRB'd," that's something I'm reluctant to do. Generally you work to try to drag the contractors up to standard, because screaming and shouting isn't going to get them changed any sooner.
I rarely meet these people again. I almost always get requests from them to "Friend2 on Facebook or LinkedIn, which I never respond to.
I don't get to see resumes, since I don't get to choose staff. Most resumes are "went to school ; went to university ; joined current company." Even for 20-year people (mine says essentially that). Then there is a list of places worked and companies worked for (150 different clients for me, I think ; I've not looked at my CV for four or 5 years).
Standard operating procedure, insisted on by head office, is always "No, we don't provide references, positive or negative." (You get sued less often that way.) Then they say, "No, we don't know if that person worked for this company, and if we did know, we wouldn't say so." There is a lot of international tax avoidance by these companies, so it is normal for actual employment records to be held by a company in a different country to the one in which invoices are raised, and a different country to the one in which invoices are settled.
Hiring in this industry is almost entirely by personal contact. If you know that someone is good at their job (you'll only know this by working with them), and that they're looking to move employer, then you give them your business card with your Boss's name on it, and tell the Boss to expect a phone call.
(There are freelance, self-employed, personnel. I know plenty. I don't have the foggiest idea of how they get jobs. Thinking about it, I suspect that they use personal contacts too. I certainly know some I'd never consider working with again, some I do actually personally recommend, and some for whom it's "Meh")
Sorry - we've just decided which house to buy, and the wife keeps distracting me with questions. Got to go.
I don't think so, though I@m not at all clear on this "test out" concept that you're hanging on. It may be that your courses (I've already forgotten what the original courses under discussion were) are pure knowledge courses - you either know it or you don't. "Law" or "History of Business Bullshit Administration", that sort of thing. However, in the subject I work with - I deal with 20-30 relative newcomers to the industry every year, all with degrees, though which continent from varies greatly - really does seem to require practice at examining the materials. During a degree course, you'd examine 500 to 1000 samples, perhaps half of which would be relevant to our industry ; during your first month in active employment (not on training courses), you'll double that experience ; second month, same again ... experience really does count, because there are fewer misleading specimens that are novel to you.
Someone could "test out" (take exams only, without the thousand-odd hours of laboratory work?), arrive in the industry "fully qualified", and be absolutely useless. It would be like sitting in a crashing helicopter and expecting the guy blocking your escape route to know how to not panic as he drowns, because he's "tested out" on helicopter crashing instead of taking the practical course (where you get a mild drowning).
Could you "test out" on a course that included a continuous assessment element requiring you to do collaborative work in a team with others? You might be able to do the appropriate coursework in one assessment, with one team, but you'd be working to their speed (plus, of course, whatever other courses they are doing), not yours - that is one of the points of collaborative work, of course. And when you wanted to move on 30 seconds later to starting the next project, the project details wouldn't be released to you until the timetabled start date in several weeks.
So ... this was some special arrangement for essentially sitting the exams without taking the courses? But how would that help you to graduate any quicker? You enter the subject, and you take the first year exams (which are released at the end of first year ; "Gentlefolk, you may turn your papers over"). You hand the papers in (the question papers and your answer scripts), wait a few weeks to get the results of those, and if you passed the appropriate first year courses, you get to choose your second year courses. The exams for those are released 50-odd weeks later, "Gentlefolk, you may turn your papers over". Lather, rinse and repeat ; you've graduated in the same time period as everyone else.
Ah ... I checked back. The subject of discussion was at "a private German economics and business university." So, a school for "white collar" liars, cheats and thieves. Of course they're going to be angry about being bilked from thousands of dollars of their fees. They certainly do not want their students proving that they've learned their lessons in thievery and deceit. The guy will likely end up as a politician (that's not a compliment).
And if the general course specifies that you WILL do so much lab work ; you WILL present a lab book with so much work on the Teaching Collection (which is not the Exam Collection), you WILL present This, That, And the Other Collaborative Projects, each within 5 weeks of the release date of the project's details, and no project collaboration to be done with members of a previous collaborating team. (That was hard
Friends you trust, whose technical ability you also trust, are probably a safer investment. People who would understand why, if Mr A has the password, and Mrs B has the encrypted file with the interesting stuff in it, then those data remain separate until needed. Even then, you're not fully protected - maybe you need a third friend in a different country, who carries the inner password. And who doesn't know Mssrs A and B very well.
Ye Gods! I'm getting cynical in my middle age.
... as well as being a friend of Bush the First (former king of America) and Bush the Second (also former king of America).
The proxy armies of Al Quaeda (mostly from some country called "America" ; who fell for their politician's lies and have since been led around by the nose by Al Quaeda) have killed many more people than Al Quaeda themselves. When the proxy wars (Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq) are added up, the body count is more likely approaching a million.
I think you're on pretty thin ice with that sort of argument. The classes were available to you ; whether or not you chose to attend is your choice.
Look at a counter example : a slack student attends a course with 1000 hours of lectures, tutorials and labs in total. Those are timetabled through the year and carried out. Mr Slack Student doesn't attend more than the minimum of required lectures/ tutorials or labs (when I was a college, lectures weren't monitored, but tutorials were all "pass round the sheet, sign with date and time" and labs had signing-in/ signing-out books because chemicals or valuable equipment were involved). "since Mr Slack Student didn't attend all of those classes, therefore they are not entitled to that money. No services rendered."
Actually, that now sounds so nonsensical ... did you actually write what you meant to say? In any sane situation, what matters if if they go to the extent of timetabling the lectures, booking the theatres, building and supply the laboratories ; whether you attend or not, they've provided the service ; your fault for non-attendance, not theirs.
Who does accreditation auditing in Maryland. Or GW? It sounds as if someone has (had) got something seriously wrong, and one course is (was) badly mis-described. Both courses should be undergraduate, or post-graduate ; but not one of each. That's one of the things that external examiners are required to check up on when you do your viva.
That would rather depend on whether or not you wrote a halting condition into the code.
Everyone has grandparents, even if they more resemble baboons than they resemble humans. Having grandchildren is optional ; having grandparents is not optional.
Knowing who your biological grandparents are is also optional.
Check you passport - I think you were given an exemption from the law of gravity. Step off any convenient tall structure to check your exemption.
Can I watch when the hot women seduce the hot female nerds with hot sex?
Oh, hang on ... I'll not wait.
That a particular manufacturer claims "we don't do Nasty Thing X," is only to be expected. Lying is expected behaviour for any manufacturer, or any other type of corporation. Didn't you read your marketing handouts?
Sounds to me like something whose very existence would lower property values in an area. I'm looking at moving at the moment (OK, the wife etc etc), and I'd consider the existence of such an agreement to devalue a property by 10 of thousands of £££.
Actually, I'm not sure that I'd agree to such an agreement at all.
Not untue. But if you look back at the list of suggestions (roof-top solar ; wind power) then by definition you are looking at people who are willing to put the solar panels in their back yard (well, on the sun-facing aspects of the roof, probably requiring temporary scaffolding in the back yard) and to put a windmill on a pole in the back yard.
(Which may work in America, but wouldn't work for me - I live in an apartment, and don't either own a roof or have full control of the back yard.)
While it is possible, with sufficient capital, to make houses that can be permanently off-grid, it's expensive. However, to produce enough power to run a fridge/freezer, a computer and a single air conditioner is a much more realistic prospect, which would considerably mitigate the effects of grid-power loss.
I do wonder ... how did cities like Washington get built in the couple of centuries of their existence before the invention of the air conditioner? I've not spent much time learning the details of foreign history, and I've never heard this question addressed. I suppose that there were annual migrations of workers ("transhumance") from the habitable Northern States to the uninhabitable South to work on building the cities during the winter. Then when the South became uninhabitable in the summer, they'd all move back north again.
Must have made it difficult to prosecute the Civil War. Or was that after the invention of the AC?
(HINT : I may have different interpretations of "uninhabitable" to most reporters on this subject. I've lived and worked without AC at 48deg (Centigrade, of course) ; it isn't fun, but you can do it.)
[Lifts entire post off screen, using forceps and rubber gloves. Examines post.]
Sarcasm! Alive and in the wild.
How interesting.
So ... sea-level wise, you don't have much to worry about for one to one-and-a-half centuries. Confidence inspiring. Slightly less urgent things to consider are whether the routes of services (road, rail, pipelines, pylons) have any vulnerable dips that might need routing around. As sea-level rises, are there harbour facilities that will need to be moved, or just plain built ; and how will that affect the economics of the area.
If you're close to an ocean, including along a large river valley, then you've a literally astronomical consideration of whether you'll get hit by tsunami from a meteorite impact in that ocean basin. 44m is a healthy degree of freeboard though. A more terrestrial consideration is the stability of the piles of glacial debris on the continental slopes ocean-ward of you : that is fundamentally what caused the "Storegga Slide" which washed low-lying areas of the coast around here about 7500BC and 5000 BC (the waves washed up the Rhine Valley and across Belgium). You'll have to do your own research on that - I don't know about the structure of the ice sheets offshore from the St Lawrence estuary, or from Vancouver area. But with my "geologist" hat on (it says "ÑÐбÐ", which is a joke that only works with Russians of a certain age and probably won't pass through SlashCode unmangled), I'd say that the idea is worth some examination. I'd start by finding the local university geology department (or amateur geology club ; an adult-education study group, perhaps?) and seeing if someone else has already taken an interest in the topic.
(Microsoft || Nokia) ... same company.
Enough said.
Rudyard Kipling (amongst others) would disagree with you.
You're forgetting the most destructive invasive alien species of the lot - an anthropoid primate introduced from East Africa which has for certain devastated the local flora and is quite likely for decimating the fauna about 10000 years ago. And which look to continue with it's hugely destructive ways until it makes the environment uninhabitable for itself as well as anything else.
Just because the invasive alien species wreaking havoc on your ecosystem includes you, doesn't mean that it's not an alien invasive species that is wreaking havoc on your ecosystem. And just because the havoc has been repeatedly wreaked hundreds of years ago and thousands of years ago, doesn't make it any the less havoc.
I'll go and RTFA now. Sounds like it could be interesting, if not terribly important.