I'm happy for you, but the point of a currency isn't for early adopters to get rich from it. The point of a currency is for people to use it to pay for stuff. I know there are a couple of niche stores that proponents point to which accept bitcoin as payment, but the vast majority of things people need to buy need real money. (Even you cashed out for USD.)
Also, if Bitcoin is so great, why did you sell the hardware? Why aren't you still using it?
I like to think of it as the first step towards the scientific method. Simple tracking of cause and effect: when I hit the pig over the head with a rock the pig dies, when I eat the pig I stop being hungry, when I go to sleep I stop being sleepy. One time I didn't wash the pig before I ate it so I got sick, Cthulu must like it when I wash pigs so to keep him happy I'll wash the pig every time.
Hasn't xkcd taught us that phones starting the robot apocalypse are not threat at all. Trains too, they can't hurt us. (Although it may have been smbc who taught us that one.)
I was just trying to be funny, but now that you've made me think about it I'll add a bit to your comment.
There are two ways to look at it: as if the impact never happened, or as if there was an impact but for whatever reason it didn't break the moon free.
If there was no impact then we would still be size of earth + size of moon + whatever debris we lost during the impact
If there was an impact then it would be size of earth + size of moon + size of impactor - debris as Shatrat and Harperska suggested below.
Of course both of these formulae will have very substantial components to account for everything else that's happened (or may have happened if the Earth were larger/smaller) since then.
Actually it has been suggested that the ramp up of chinese coal plants emitting sulphur has been offsetting the carbon from the rest of the world, as there has not been any detectable warming in the last 10 years or so.
I really find something I can link to so I don't have to type this out every time...
The ice age predicted in the seventies was supposed to be as a result of sulphur in the atmosphere. It has the opposite effect of carbon in that it bounces energy back out to space. Stopping sulphur getting to the atmosphere is easy, a scrubber on your exhaust stack and most of it is eleiminated. As an added bonus you can sell the sulfuric acid it produces.
Global warming is from carbon in the atmosphere. Trying to get it out is a lot more of a hassle as you'd have to change the whole way you do things. People don't like change, which is why we're seeing so much more of a fight over global warming.
Simple sentence, community service and supervised internet access until he can prove he won't be acting like an ass again.
Actually this is pretty much what he's asking for. He wants to be tried in the UK (as he was a UK citizen commiting the "crime" in the UK.) The authorities want to ship him to the US where he would face 60 years in jail, which is a ridiculous sentence for anyone.
Of the digi clocks I've seen about 50% indicate am or pm. Even if they do, they're still right once a day, which is more that you can say for most governments around the world.
The free marketeer in me wants me to say this: If there are indeed industrial processes which cannot be performed with less power, then increasing the cost of power across the board would increase the price of those final products, driving down demand, and making a more significant impact to the total power usage.
The realist in me thinks that there's probably some very good reasons why it wouldn't work out that simply, but he's too sleepy to think of them right now.
Actually I thought he was talking about how bad the mobile networks are. The comment to which he was replying said that there are a lot of people trying to find these holes, so we'd find them all, but really there aren't that many people in a position to look for the holes, thus many will go unfound.
Not that I'm agreeing with either point of view, but sometimes it helps to read more than the first three words of a comment before replying to it. (Depending on how count "~ 25%" even the first three words tell you that he's not just talking about Spain.)
Well, sure, for simple ideas like that you can get slack, but if you have something more intricate to say then you need to pay attention to what words mean. It's a lot easier to keep yourself sharp if you use language correctly all the time.
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Well, now that he's dead he's one step closer to being a deity.
I'm happy for you, but the point of a currency isn't for early adopters to get rich from it. The point of a currency is for people to use it to pay for stuff. I know there are a couple of niche stores that proponents point to which accept bitcoin as payment, but the vast majority of things people need to buy need real money. (Even you cashed out for USD.)
Also, if Bitcoin is so great, why did you sell the hardware? Why aren't you still using it?
It says that just 20 years ago people were complaining that we were entering a cooling period and we had to do something to warm the globe up.
It seems like just yesterday I was posting against this falacy.
Oh, actually it was Tuesday: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3189769&cid=41675127
My girlfriend sent her daughter to bible camp. When she came back she told me that she likes Jesus more than me. That kinda hurt.
I like to think of it as the first step towards the scientific method. Simple tracking of cause and effect: when I hit the pig over the head with a rock the pig dies, when I eat the pig I stop being hungry, when I go to sleep I stop being sleepy. One time I didn't wash the pig before I ate it so I got sick, Cthulu must like it when I wash pigs so to keep him happy I'll wash the pig every time.
Hasn't xkcd taught us that phones starting the robot apocalypse are not threat at all. Trains too, they can't hurt us. (Although it may have been smbc who taught us that one.)
Toyota Prius acceleration issues?
I was just trying to be funny, but now that you've made me think about it I'll add a bit to your comment.
There are two ways to look at it: as if the impact never happened, or as if there was an impact but for whatever reason it didn't break the moon free.
If there was no impact then we would still be size of earth + size of moon + whatever debris we lost during the impact
If there was an impact then it would be size of earth + size of moon + size of impactor - debris as Shatrat and Harperska suggested below.
Of course both of these formulae will have very substantial components to account for everything else that's happened (or may have happened if the Earth were larger/smaller) since then.
About the size of present earth + present moon, I'd imagine.
I figured a meatball must have fallen off while His Great Noodleiness was creating the earth.
Go back to the bucket thing...
Actually it has been suggested that the ramp up of chinese coal plants emitting sulphur has been offsetting the carbon from the rest of the world, as there has not been any detectable warming in the last 10 years or so.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jul/04/sulphur-pollution-china-coal-climate (Sorry for linking to the Guardian, but it's the only one I could find quickly.)
I really find something I can link to so I don't have to type this out every time...
The ice age predicted in the seventies was supposed to be as a result of sulphur in the atmosphere. It has the opposite effect of carbon in that it bounces energy back out to space. Stopping sulphur getting to the atmosphere is easy, a scrubber on your exhaust stack and most of it is eleiminated. As an added bonus you can sell the sulfuric acid it produces.
Global warming is from carbon in the atmosphere. Trying to get it out is a lot more of a hassle as you'd have to change the whole way you do things. People don't like change, which is why we're seeing so much more of a fight over global warming.
I thought it might be similar to running the universe a bath. What a let down.
Shout "Microsoft is about to be rimmed!"
Simple sentence, community service and supervised internet access until he can prove he won't be acting like an ass again.
Actually this is pretty much what he's asking for. He wants to be tried in the UK (as he was a UK citizen commiting the "crime" in the UK.) The authorities want to ship him to the US where he would face 60 years in jail, which is a ridiculous sentence for anyone.
Of the digi clocks I've seen about 50% indicate am or pm. Even if they do, they're still right once a day, which is more that you can say for most governments around the world.
The free marketeer in me wants me to say this:
If there are indeed industrial processes which cannot be performed with less power, then increasing the cost of power across the board would increase the price of those final products, driving down demand, and making a more significant impact to the total power usage.
The realist in me thinks that there's probably some very good reasons why it wouldn't work out that simply, but he's too sleepy to think of them right now.
Careful with that, they tend to riot whenever people poke fun at them.
Actually I thought he was talking about how bad the mobile networks are. The comment to which he was replying said that there are a lot of people trying to find these holes, so we'd find them all, but really there aren't that many people in a position to look for the holes, thus many will go unfound.
Shh. As long as we keep calling them "adult" the fundies will keep off our backs.
Not that I'm agreeing with either point of view, but sometimes it helps to read more than the first three words of a comment before replying to it. (Depending on how count "~ 25%" even the first three words tell you that he's not just talking about Spain.)
Let's use the benefit of hindsight for this one.
Libya: No US soldiers ever touched the ground, the dictator has been dispatched and they're well on the way to Democracy.
Iraq/Afghanistan: 8 years in, US soldiers are still there, no sign of democracy happening any time soon.
A true racing fan would be educated enough to not watch NASCAR.
FTFY
Well, sure, for simple ideas like that you can get slack, but if you have something more intricate to say then you need to pay attention to what words mean. It's a lot easier to keep yourself sharp if you use language correctly all the time.