I think people's emphasis on the visual has something to do with the fact that sight is an active sense. If you want to see something you have to point your eyeballs at it and adjust your focus, whereas hearing just happens naturally. Sight is a directed sense focused on some target, whereas you hearing is immersive...you hear everything around you. Since we tend to pay more attention to what we are actively involved in, sight gets top billing.
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And that is also wrong. You forgot the real scenario:
California | or / or \ Rest of US...doesn't matter
It's a strike slip fault...California is moving north relative to the rest of the continent at a rate of a cm or two per year, so give it a while (millions and millions of years) and California will border Alaska.
Of course that's a massivly simplified view, but it adequately descibes the situation.
There is absolutely no danger of California ever sinking into the Pacific (sadly), the best we can hope for is global warming melting the icecaps and raising sea level...that would cover most of CA's population with water.
I suspect "Michael" is a computer program that randomly picks submitted stories to accept and then generates the story text using key words from the submission.
The ulitmate parent made the statement that yahoo is "selling your info that you register and from your e-mail".
I can say that yahoo isn't selling my e-mail to spammer (I get very little spam).
As for them selling the e-mail addresses I send/receive e-mail to/from to spammers, which I believe is implied as well, I can also say that has not happened to me since I also have an e-mail account through my personal website (basically the same thing as the business account you describe), and have sent mail between it and yahoo, and it gets no spam at all. So unless I got lucky and the e-mail harvesting bots missed all those messages, yahoo isn't selling the addresses of those I correspond with.
My statements all describe my experience with yahoo mail, whereas yours and the parents broadly assume all corporations are evil (except the sacred google). If you have any evidence that yahoo is behaving in such a nefarious manner, I'd like to hear it since I wouldn't want to be burdening my friends with more spam, but until there is evidence please cut out the FUD.
Finally: "Or perhaps you prefer to troll?" says the AC troll....ahh the hypocrisy!
Obviously your reading comprehension is not so good. If you had read my post you would see that I get virtually no spam sent to my yahoo account. I think if yahoo was selling my info to spammers, I would be getting spam. I'm not quite sure what you're talking about with business accounts...I don't think yahoo makes any distinction between business and personal accounts.
I know hotmail accounts are plagued by spam (used to have one before switching to yahoo). MSN and AOL are different animals (being ISP's not webmail services), but I've never used either of them so I can't comment on their practices.
I don't think yahoo sells your info....my yahoo account would be nearly free of spam if I didn't have my university account forwarding too it (even then I only get 3-4 spams per day).
Yahoo's spam filters are also fairly good, so 95% of the spam I do receive goes directly to jail. I pay the $19.99 a year for POP access, and now they are adding all the Plus! features (2 Gig storage, 10Meg attachments, no banner adds, no taglines, and supposedly better spam filtering + antivirus) to that, which used to be another $9.99.
They did have a bit of a bug with the switchover though, since got a message stating: "You are currently exceeding your Yahoo! Mail storage quota by a very large amount. You are only allowed -2048.0MB of storage but you are currently using 0.2MB of storage." Yes, that is negative mail storage...but it was fixd by the time I got the email, said wah?, and logged in to check it out.
As a Geologist I'm even more confused by your statement 'I did a GIS for "Phoebe"'. I use GIS quite a lot and didn't know that geographical information systems had anything to do with space exploration or Lisa Kudrow. To think all this time all I've been doing with my GIS is mapping and spatial analysis. I'll have to fire up ArcView and try out these new features you describe...
I agree that public access to publicly funded cameras watching a public area would make sense. It would add to the cost of the system, but probably not too much so.
On the "public place - no privacy" issue I have to disagree though. If you go out in public you are running the risk of being seen and recognized by someone. In the case of these cameras, it's just that the person recognizing you is sitting watching a screen somewhere instead of walking/biking/driving by you. It will still be impossible for the gov. to track every single person these cameras see...that would be far too expensive. And if someone in law enforcement recognizing you is a problem for you, then we probably want you in jail anyway.
And as for cameras quelching dissent, I argue the opposite. What better place to have a demonstration than in front of cameras? The whole point of dissent is to be seen and heard. And if the abomination of reality TV has taught us anything it's that cameras don't inhibit people.
Instead systems like these are a deterent to crime...if a crime is commited they can pull the record from the cameras and ID a suspect, or if they happen to catch someone in the act they could route officers to intercept the fleeing suspect.
All the overreaction to such security measures is what bugs me...if the privacy advocates get up in arms over every little thing, who is going to listen to you when something really important is going on. Save your breath for the important fights...anticrime cameras in downtown Baltimore is not an omen of an impending police state.
Now, before you all start flaming me... In many cases there are real concerns. The Patriot Act way overstepped the gov. rights...most of it needs to go. Ashcroft is a power hungry freak and needs to go (too bad Marc Racicot turned down the AG position when offered). The way many immigrants are being treated/detained/deported is despicable, given that we claim our rights and liberties to be universal for all humans.
But, WE can't stop all tech development just because somebody might use it for something bad. That is just silly. Everything can be used for good or ill. We just need to keep watching the watchers, and smack then upside the head when they get out of line.
Censorship would involve a government. Censorship would occur prior to publication.
In this case it's a private entity (ISP) wrongfully removing content from a client's site. That might be breach of contract, but not censorship. I'm sure if the publisher of the site in question contacted the ISP after it was taken down and explained that the material was public domain it would be allowed to be reposted.
So, nothing to see here...take off the tinfoil hats and move along....
There's no need to invent wild theories without any backing when reality is plenty interesting. And if you try to claim reality is boring you obvously don't know much about it.
Antarctica has been more or less covered by ice for about 40 million years, much longer than humans have existed. There are a few fossil plants from the Antarctic Penninsula between 2-5 million years ago, indicating some retreats of the ice, but that is still well before humans.
As for the tilt of the axis, it only tilts between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees. So axial tilt has no effect such as you imply. Continental drift has caused continents to be located at vastly different latitudes throughout geologic time, but the south pole has been in Antartica since the Cretaceous.
"As the ice melts and dilutes the water to lower salt concentrations, the density drops"
Fresh water is less dense than sea water so the density rises, preventing cold water from sinking at the poles.
And generally this is only considered likely for the North Atlantic, due to the large reserve of fresh water sitting on Greenland in the form of ice right next to the strongest and most climate altering ocean current, the Gulf Stream.
Now that so many phones have gps capability, why not add a feature where the phone reports its location and signal strength (anonymously) to a central server periodically. Then "real time" results can be displayed on a map online.
It isn't just in NY, nearly every state that has sales tax requires you to report and pay tax on out of state purchases...it's called "Use Tax". Nobody I know has ever done so though....
The difference in those scenarios is intent. If I throw a grenade into a crowd, I'm intending to kill people, if I'm running a red light I'm most likely not. Killing somebody due to incompetance is manslaughter, but killing them purposefully is murder.
I'm in favor of stricter controls on who gets to drive, and tougher penalties for those who abuse the priviledge (it's not a RIGHT), but running a red light and killing someone is not murder.
"Emissions from gasoline-burning cars are partly responsible for acid rain"
Automobiles are not big contributers to acid rain. Coal burning power plants without flue gas scrubbers were the main culprit, and now that many plants have been upgraded the acid rain problem (at least in the US) is diminishing. Also, given that the main acid rain problems were in the northeast, and most agriculture takes place in the midwest and great plains, acid rain did not have much influence an agricultural productivity.
The EPA has a large site concerning acid rain, it's rather technical, but there are also some good maps.
IMHO any way we can reuse material rather than dumping it is a good thing.
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I think people's emphasis on the visual has something to do with the fact that sight is an active sense. If you want to see something you have to point your eyeballs at it and adjust your focus, whereas hearing just happens naturally. Sight is a directed sense focused on some target, whereas you hearing is immersive...you hear everything around you. Since we tend to pay more attention to what we are actively involved in, sight gets top billing.
And that is also wrong.
You forgot the real scenario:
California | or / or \ Rest of US...doesn't matter
It's a strike slip fault...California is moving north relative to the rest of the continent at a rate of a cm or two per year, so give it a while (millions and millions of years) and California will border Alaska.
Of course that's a massivly simplified view, but it adequately descibes the situation.
There is absolutely no danger of California ever sinking into the Pacific (sadly), the best we can hope for is global warming melting the icecaps and raising sea level...that would cover most of CA's population with water.
I suspect "Michael" is a computer program that randomly picks submitted stories to accept and then generates the story text using key words from the submission.
Yes, I know everything gets simulated these days...I was just being somewhat snarky....
So this simulation allows people to run quantum computing algorithms on a non-quantum computer...basically it's a quantum computer emulator?
The ulitmate parent made the statement that yahoo is "selling your info that you register and from your e-mail".
I can say that yahoo isn't selling my e-mail to spammer (I get very little spam).
As for them selling the e-mail addresses I send/receive e-mail to/from to spammers, which I believe is implied as well, I can also say that has not happened to me since I also have an e-mail account through my personal website (basically the same thing as the business account you describe), and have sent mail between it and yahoo, and it gets no spam at all. So unless I got lucky and the e-mail harvesting bots missed all those messages, yahoo isn't selling the addresses of those I correspond with.
My statements all describe my experience with yahoo mail, whereas yours and the parents broadly assume all corporations are evil (except the sacred google). If you have any evidence that yahoo is behaving in such a nefarious manner, I'd like to hear it since I wouldn't want to be burdening my friends with more spam, but until there is evidence please cut out the FUD.
Finally: "Or perhaps you prefer to troll?" says the AC troll....ahh the hypocrisy!
Now we're making computer simulations of...COMPUTERS?
As a computer modeller (of ground water) this seems somewhat redundant to me...then of course I didn't RTFA so I'm no doubt missing something.
Ummmmm....no?
Obviously your reading comprehension is not so good. If you had read my post you would see that I get virtually no spam sent to my yahoo account. I think if yahoo was selling my info to spammers, I would be getting spam. I'm not quite sure what you're talking about with business accounts...I don't think yahoo makes any distinction between business and personal accounts.
I know hotmail accounts are plagued by spam (used to have one before switching to yahoo). MSN and AOL are different animals (being ISP's not webmail services), but I've never used either of them so I can't comment on their practices.
I don't think yahoo sells your info....my yahoo account would be nearly free of spam if I didn't have my university account forwarding too it (even then I only get 3-4 spams per day).
Yahoo's spam filters are also fairly good, so 95% of the spam I do receive goes directly to jail. I pay the $19.99 a year for POP access, and now they are adding all the Plus! features (2 Gig storage, 10Meg attachments, no banner adds, no taglines, and supposedly better spam filtering + antivirus) to that, which used to be another $9.99.
They did have a bit of a bug with the switchover though, since got a message stating:
"You are currently exceeding your Yahoo! Mail storage quota by a very large amount. You are only allowed -2048.0MB of storage but you are currently using 0.2MB of storage."
Yes, that is negative mail storage...but it was fixd by the time I got the email, said wah?, and logged in to check it out.
"as dense as metal"
Density(g/cm^3): Granite 2.75, Copper 8.94
Sorry, granite is not nearly dense enough.
As a Geologist I'm even more confused by your statement 'I did a GIS for "Phoebe"'.
I use GIS quite a lot and didn't know that geographical information systems had anything to do with space exploration or Lisa Kudrow. To think all this time all I've been doing with my GIS is mapping and spatial analysis.
I'll have to fire up ArcView and try out these new features you describe...
I agree that public access to publicly funded cameras watching a public area would make sense. It would add to the cost of the system, but probably not too much so.
On the "public place - no privacy" issue I have to disagree though. If you go out in public you are running the risk of being seen and recognized by someone. In the case of these cameras, it's just that the person recognizing you is sitting watching a screen somewhere instead of walking/biking/driving by you. It will still be impossible for the gov. to track every single person these cameras see...that would be far too expensive. And if someone in law enforcement recognizing you is a problem for you, then we probably want you in jail anyway.
And as for cameras quelching dissent, I argue the opposite. What better place to have a demonstration than in front of cameras? The whole point of dissent is to be seen and heard. And if the abomination of reality TV has taught us anything it's that cameras don't inhibit people.
Instead systems like these are a deterent to crime...if a crime is commited they can pull the record from the cameras and ID a suspect, or if they happen to catch someone in the act they could route officers to intercept the fleeing suspect.
All the overreaction to such security measures is what bugs me...if the privacy advocates get up in arms over every little thing, who is going to listen to you when something really important is going on. Save your breath for the important fights...anticrime cameras in downtown Baltimore is not an omen of an impending police state.
Now, before you all start flaming me... In many cases there are real concerns. The Patriot Act way overstepped the gov. rights...most of it needs to go. Ashcroft is a power hungry freak and needs to go (too bad Marc Racicot turned down the AG position when offered). The way many immigrants are being treated/detained/deported is despicable, given that we claim our rights and liberties to be universal for all humans.
But, WE can't stop all tech development just because somebody might use it for something bad. That is just silly. Everything can be used for good or ill. We just need to keep watching the watchers, and smack then upside the head when they get out of line.
Censorship would involve a government. Censorship would occur prior to publication.
In this case it's a private entity (ISP) wrongfully removing content from a client's site. That might be breach of contract, but not censorship. I'm sure if the publisher of the site in question contacted the ISP after it was taken down and explained that the material was public domain it would be allowed to be reposted.
So, nothing to see here...take off the tinfoil hats and move along....
No, I just think science is fun enough as it is.
There's no need to invent wild theories without any backing when reality is plenty interesting. And if you try to claim reality is boring you obvously don't know much about it.
Not likely...despite what Sci-Fi may say....
Antarctica has been more or less covered by ice for about 40 million years, much longer than humans have existed. There are a few fossil plants from the Antarctic Penninsula between 2-5 million years ago, indicating some retreats of the ice, but that is still well before humans.
As for the tilt of the axis, it only tilts between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees. So axial tilt has no effect such as you imply. Continental drift has caused continents to be located at vastly different latitudes throughout geologic time, but the south pole has been in Antartica since the Cretaceous.
"This isn't as safe as driving a car"
Actually, it's probably safer. Driving a car is damned dangerous.
And from a statistical standpoint it is definitely safer, based on fatalites per man-hour of operation.
And without Easter we'd have less tooth decay.
Spot on, except for:
"As the ice melts and dilutes the water to lower salt concentrations, the density drops"
Fresh water is less dense than sea water so the density rises, preventing cold water from sinking at the poles.
And generally this is only considered likely for the North Atlantic, due to the large reserve of fresh water sitting on Greenland in the form of ice right next to the strongest and most climate altering ocean current, the Gulf Stream.
In fact, the last person to be elected President with >50% of the vote was Bush Sr.
Now that so many phones have gps capability, why not add a feature where the phone reports its location and signal strength (anonymously) to a central server periodically. Then "real time" results can be displayed on a map online.
It isn't just in NY, nearly every state that has sales tax requires you to report and pay tax on out of state purchases...it's called "Use Tax". Nobody I know has ever done so though....
The difference in those scenarios is intent. If I throw a grenade into a crowd, I'm intending to kill people, if I'm running a red light I'm most likely not. Killing somebody due to incompetance is manslaughter, but killing them purposefully is murder.
I'm in favor of stricter controls on who gets to drive, and tougher penalties for those who abuse the priviledge (it's not a RIGHT), but running a red light and killing someone is not murder.
You forgot to mention orogeny and overturned beds....
"Emissions from gasoline-burning cars are partly responsible for acid rain"
Automobiles are not big contributers to acid rain. Coal burning power plants without flue gas scrubbers were the main culprit, and now that many plants have been upgraded the acid rain problem (at least in the US) is diminishing. Also, given that the main acid rain problems were in the northeast, and most agriculture takes place in the midwest and great plains, acid rain did not have much influence an agricultural productivity.
The EPA has a large site concerning acid rain, it's rather technical, but there are also some good maps.
IMHO any way we can reuse material rather than dumping it is a good thing.
Yes, you are missing that the e-mails themselves are not coming from China. The website the e-mails point to are hosted in China.
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