I'll bet they have computers. Westboro isn't actually a church.
They are more like patent trolls, but they troll city governments that try to quash the protests and then sue them.
It's a family business, not a church, just like a patent troll is a business but not a company that makes or sells items (unless ou consider a protection racket an item).
btw, I think the only government Westboro has complained about is the US one.
Seems to me being off by a factor of 3 is not a "massive" mistake in calculating economic _estimates_.
There's a lot of guesswork involved.
The fact that everybody guesses in the best direction for their employer is not strange.
How many of the top 500 economists predicted the 2007 recession?. Many of them even said we weren't in a recession when we actually were.
btw, if you haven't disabled advertising, this particular thread on slashdot sends you wonderful offers from McAfee;-)
Video rentals long predate Redbox. They were around 30 years ago.
Which means Hollywood is just now starting to deal with a generation raised on watching videos on demand in the quiet of your own home.
Why is movie theater experience 'better.?' My 21-year-old daughter just went to see Monsters University with a friend and was annoyed by the kids chattering and one kid kicking the back of the row of seats down at the other end and a few moms talking on their cell phones.
Waiting 2 to 12 months for the video looks better all the time to more and more people.
I have no math but in my marine geology class, one professor said if the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica broke off and fell into the ocean, world sea levels would rise by 6 inches.
I've also read that there is over 2 miles of ice over the land in Antarctica.
Depends on the life which is trying to adapt. Sealife, in the instance of rising sea levels, probably has a better chance at adapting than air sucking land dwellers.
If a rising sea level were the only thing to adapt to, I would agree. It'd be like finding more free land for Europeans (ala 1492)
Unfortunately, I think sea life is going to have a miserable time adjusting to increased levels of carbonic acid.
It may not affect porpoises directly, but if it kills of everything their favorite food likes to eat, it'd be like humans unable to grow corn.
All those other places just need to make sea level rise from global warming illegal, like North Carolina did.
That'll fix the issue fer sure.
Actually, all NC did was prevent the various govt agencies from making plans for sea level rise.
I suspect that's going to be about as effective as not getting vaccinated.
Basic economics is also an issue. Every time the price of oil or coal goes up, then it become cost-effective to dig a little deeper or keep aging plants on-line a bit longer.
Just to be clear -- you are arguing that human agriculture starting at a small scale in a few places was the cause of the end of the last ice age?
We know correlation != causation but it's really hard to imagine someone arguing that the causation there goes in the other direction, which is the "reverse" that you refer to.
The Ice Ages are caused by perturbations in the Earth's orbit AND only occur if the general temperature of the Earth is low enough. We still had the same perturbations during the warm dinosaur ages.
Based on the orbit, the next ice Age should have been starting 8-10,000 years ago. It didn't.
Now don't go getting your knickers in a knot by saying early humans couldn't have put out enough CO2 to stop an Ice Age without first understanding that all the other Ice Ages started from a minor change in orientation and albedo and a slightly longer snow cover from year to year.
On a shorter time scale, scientists have discovered that the weather in the Colorado River basin when Europeans first took it seriously as a water source (~1920-50) was much wetter than 'normal' (any time in the past few thousand years). That means the average amount of water available over the short term is usually much less that what we expect.
And that's got nothing to do with global warming (probably;-) but it will still affect civilization, or whatever you want to call Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
You don't get to blame journalists, at least not unless lying itself is not a protected form of speech.
Journalism is gossip. Nothing more, nothing less.
And when your pay is based on popularity, then you write to the lowest common denominator, much like how politicians play to voters.
We voters like to blame politicians for the failing in _our_ system.
Huh? You act like the 'culture of individualism' is something new, possibly American.
Read Homer's Odyssey. Or most any polytheistic mythology and see what sorts of humans the gods deal with.
It's all about heroes.
Besides all that, they even said that they have never even seen a drone over the town.
Yes but that was before the town fathers took their anti-USA (Homeland Security) stance.
I suspect the NSA has pulled all the records of the Deer Trail council folks by now.
drone attractant is made up of 2 parts turban and 5 parts young male
Carrying around some kind of explosives or some outrageous reading material such as the Q'uran or the US Constitution will also attract them.
Did anyone else think this article was going to be about hunting animals WITH drones?
That's Oklahoma. They have a problem with 'invasive' hogs and are thinking of allowing folks to hunt their own properties from airplanes.
Of course, if the ranchers in OK were really serious about getting rid of wild boars, they'd probably let you hunt the properties free of charge instead of charging hundreds of dollars a day.
in other words, many of those ranchers make money when hogs 'invade' their ranch.
It's probably a twofer.
The town of Deer Trail will give you $100
The USA Federal Government will give you an all-expenses paid vacation to the water treatment facilities at Guantanomo Bay.
I don't care about voting, blind or not.
Socially, the New York Times is supposed to be representative of American media and literacy.
In reality, the National Enquirer is the most _popular_ 'news' paper in America.
imo, you should decide what you want to measure first. Not measure (vote) and then say that is the highest quality because quality is not what is being measured when you count popularity.
visit Mesa Verde. Climb the canyon walls with water and food in your arms instead of camping in tipis or wigwams by the streams where it is verdant and lush.
If the entire population fights, that is a major war. Unless you wish to define war as involving populations of a large size that would exclude the ancient Greek, Roman, and Babylonian civilizations as well as all the 'wars' mentioned in the Old Testament.
The first bacteria. (Free oxygen was the first manure).
Of course, in the greater scheme of things, polite folks say, "What goes around, comes around."
But in the big house, the saying is, "One man's asshole is another man's vagina."
Absolutely.That's why there are trees all over the places there aren't cities.
Conversely, Popes shit all over civilization which is why there are Catholic churches all over the places there aren't bears.
The problem is that Deniers see global warming as ideological and the "Warmists" who promote it are going to cost them money.
What they don't see, and wouldn't care even if they could, is that _change_ means we move our crops to where they will grow best. That means the current agribiz folks lose more money than they would addressing global warming but that loss is decades in the future whereas any current loss due to co2 markets would show up on next quarter's balance sheet.
We need to cost out that externality real soon to make the economics match reality.
No major wars on the pre-invasion American continent?
1. Have we really looked?
2. Mesa Verde and Chaco canyon were built for the same reasons folks built castles in early Europe.
In the Aleutian Islands, archeologists are discovering several periods of raiding and warring between islands, all of which correspond to less food available in the nearby ocean.
same old same old.
That you would use a remark written by a screenwriter as a guiding principle for your life
is so far beyond pathetic that there are no words to describe your sorry state.
Seek and ye shall receive. Of course, that was written before the age of screens so I'm not sure what epithet you should call the author.
Bear in mind, that's just one of many. Card has written many, many, many times on this subject -- even arguing that homosexual acts should be criminalized, that an adult willfully engaging in sex he doesn't find acceptable with other consenting adults should go to *jail* and be deemed an unacceptable part of society.
That's the stance of many fundamentalists, you know, the kind of folks who rail against the liberal 'nanny' state that wants to tell you how to live your life;-)
Common sense and logic aren't necessary for believers in the one (or whatever) true faith.
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I'll bet they have computers. Westboro isn't actually a church.
They are more like patent trolls, but they troll city governments that try to quash the protests and then sue them.
It's a family business, not a church, just like a patent troll is a business but not a company that makes or sells items (unless ou consider a protection racket an item).
btw, I think the only government Westboro has complained about is the US one.
Seems to me being off by a factor of 3 is not a "massive" mistake in calculating economic _estimates_.
;-)
There's a lot of guesswork involved.
The fact that everybody guesses in the best direction for their employer is not strange.
How many of the top 500 economists predicted the 2007 recession?. Many of them even said we weren't in a recession when we actually were.
btw, if you haven't disabled advertising, this particular thread on slashdot sends you wonderful offers from McAfee
Not even piracy is to blame - Redbox is.
Video rentals long predate Redbox. They were around 30 years ago.
Which means Hollywood is just now starting to deal with a generation raised on watching videos on demand in the quiet of your own home.
Why is movie theater experience 'better.?' My 21-year-old daughter just went to see Monsters University with a friend and was annoyed by the kids chattering and one kid kicking the back of the row of seats down at the other end and a few moms talking on their cell phones.
Waiting 2 to 12 months for the video looks better all the time to more and more people.
I have no math but in my marine geology class, one professor said if the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica broke off and fell into the ocean, world sea levels would rise by 6 inches.
I've also read that there is over 2 miles of ice over the land in Antarctica.
whether life can adapt to them fast enough.
Depends on the life which is trying to adapt. Sealife, in the instance of rising sea levels, probably has a better chance at adapting than air sucking land dwellers.
If a rising sea level were the only thing to adapt to, I would agree. It'd be like finding more free land for Europeans (ala 1492)
Unfortunately, I think sea life is going to have a miserable time adjusting to increased levels of carbonic acid.
It may not affect porpoises directly, but if it kills of everything their favorite food likes to eat, it'd be like humans unable to grow corn.
All those other places just need to make sea level rise from global warming illegal, like North Carolina did.
That'll fix the issue fer sure.
Actually, all NC did was prevent the various govt agencies from making plans for sea level rise.
I suspect that's going to be about as effective as not getting vaccinated.
Basic economics is also an issue. Every time the price of oil or coal goes up, then it become cost-effective to dig a little deeper or keep aging plants on-line a bit longer.
Just to be clear -- you are arguing that human agriculture starting at a small scale in a few places was the cause of the end of the last ice age?
We know correlation != causation but it's really hard to imagine someone arguing that the causation there goes in the other direction, which is the "reverse" that you refer to.
The Ice Ages are caused by perturbations in the Earth's orbit AND only occur if the general temperature of the Earth is low enough. We still had the same perturbations during the warm dinosaur ages.
Based on the orbit, the next ice Age should have been starting 8-10,000 years ago. It didn't.
Now don't go getting your knickers in a knot by saying early humans couldn't have put out enough CO2 to stop an Ice Age without first understanding that all the other Ice Ages started from a minor change in orientation and albedo and a slightly longer snow cover from year to year.
The Am. Inst. of Physics has a nice set of articles about the actual science. http://www.aip.org/history/climate/index.htm
On a shorter time scale, scientists have discovered that the weather in the Colorado River basin when Europeans first took it seriously as a water source (~1920-50) was much wetter than 'normal' (any time in the past few thousand years). That means the average amount of water available over the short term is usually much less that what we expect.
;-) but it will still affect civilization, or whatever you want to call Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
And that's got nothing to do with global warming (probably
You don't get to blame journalists, at least not unless lying itself is not a protected form of speech.
Journalism is gossip. Nothing more, nothing less.
And when your pay is based on popularity, then you write to the lowest common denominator, much like how politicians play to voters.
We voters like to blame politicians for the failing in _our_ system.
Huh? You act like the 'culture of individualism' is something new, possibly American.
Read Homer's Odyssey. Or most any polytheistic mythology and see what sorts of humans the gods deal with.
It's all about heroes.
Besides all that, they even said that they have never even seen a drone over the town.
Yes but that was before the town fathers took their anti-USA (Homeland Security) stance.
I suspect the NSA has pulled all the records of the Deer Trail council folks by now.
drone attractant is made up of 2 parts turban and 5 parts young male
Carrying around some kind of explosives or some outrageous reading material such as the Q'uran or the US Constitution will also attract them.
Did anyone else think this article was going to be about hunting animals WITH drones?
That's Oklahoma. They have a problem with 'invasive' hogs and are thinking of allowing folks to hunt their own properties from airplanes.
Of course, if the ranchers in OK were really serious about getting rid of wild boars, they'd probably let you hunt the properties free of charge instead of charging hundreds of dollars a day.
in other words, many of those ranchers make money when hogs 'invade' their ranch.
It's probably a twofer.
The town of Deer Trail will give you $100
The USA Federal Government will give you an all-expenses paid vacation to the water treatment facilities at Guantanomo Bay.
I don't care about voting, blind or not.
Socially, the New York Times is supposed to be representative of American media and literacy.
In reality, the National Enquirer is the most _popular_ 'news' paper in America.
imo, you should decide what you want to measure first. Not measure (vote) and then say that is the highest quality because quality is not what is being measured when you count popularity.
visit Mesa Verde. Climb the canyon walls with water and food in your arms instead of camping in tipis or wigwams by the streams where it is verdant and lush.
If the entire population fights, that is a major war. Unless you wish to define war as involving populations of a large size that would exclude the ancient Greek, Roman, and Babylonian civilizations as well as all the 'wars' mentioned in the Old Testament.
...who discovered manure! :-)
The first bacteria. (Free oxygen was the first manure).
Of course, in the greater scheme of things, polite folks say, "What goes around, comes around."
But in the big house, the saying is, "One man's asshole is another man's vagina."
Do bears shit in the woods?
Absolutely.That's why there are trees all over the places there aren't cities.
Conversely, Popes shit all over civilization which is why there are Catholic churches all over the places there aren't bears.
The problem is that Deniers see global warming as ideological and the "Warmists" who promote it are going to cost them money.
What they don't see, and wouldn't care even if they could, is that _change_ means we move our crops to where they will grow best. That means the current agribiz folks lose more money than they would addressing global warming but that loss is decades in the future whereas any current loss due to co2 markets would show up on next quarter's balance sheet.
We need to cost out that externality real soon to make the economics match reality.
It is frustrating dealing with anorexic brains ;-)
speak for yourself. ;-O
We aren't all named Snowden
No major wars on the pre-invasion American continent?
1. Have we really looked?
2. Mesa Verde and Chaco canyon were built for the same reasons folks built castles in early Europe.
In the Aleutian Islands, archeologists are discovering several periods of raiding and warring between islands, all of which correspond to less food available in the nearby ocean.
same old same old.
That you would use a remark written by a screenwriter as a guiding principle for your life
is so far beyond pathetic that there are no words to describe your sorry state.
Seek and ye shall receive. Of course, that was written before the age of screens so I'm not sure what epithet you should call the author.
Bear in mind, that's just one of many. Card has written many, many, many times on this subject -- even arguing that homosexual acts should be criminalized, that an adult willfully engaging in sex he doesn't find acceptable with other consenting adults should go to *jail* and be deemed an unacceptable part of society.
That's the stance of many fundamentalists, you know, the kind of folks who rail against the liberal 'nanny' state that wants to tell you how to live your life ;-)
Common sense and logic aren't necessary for believers in the one (or whatever) true faith.