No kidding, maybe the reason why nations haven't insisted on more emissions reductions is because that act wouldn't have any noticeable effect on global temperature change.
Maybe some of the brighter individuals involved have understood that reducing carbon emissions is just a nice way of redistributing global income.
Maybe they see global socialism in action...
Want to play with carbon emission and temperature reduction?
Feeling lucky punk?
See here: http://www.cato.org/blog/current-wisdom-we-calculate-you-decide-handy-dandy-carbon-tax-temperature-savings-calculator
Good luck and thanks for all the fish.
Let's talk about driving a Saab in Europe. back in the days Saab had a European pickup program where you would get 5% off list, two round trip coach tickets to the factory and shipment back to the sates. I picked up a 2001 9-5 Aero at the factory in Trollhaten and drove it for 3 weeks all over the place. From Sweden to Copenhagen, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Brugge, Zurich, Vaduz and back through France to drop it off in Paris after 3500 mi at 120 mph every day. What a way to drive that car!!! At that speed it had unbelievable handling. Travel like this is something you can't really do in the US or even in the EU anymore...
Now almost 10 years later it has 110K and I can still get it over 110 on those lonely stretches. Still looks pretty sharp and gets 30mpg. Pretty much regular maintenance. I love it and hope it lasts another 10 years.
GM did this "car train" thing as an advanced research project back in the late 1970's in Cincinnati, OH. Couldn't find a link, but remember reading about it.
Alexander Tyler (a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh) had this to say about 'the fall of the Athenian Republic' some 2,000 years prior.
'A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, [which is] always followed by a dictatorship.
'The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
No. Read section 2.7, which summarizes pretty much every peer-reviewed paper published on the subject. Not even close. I mean, seriously -- did it never occur to you that maybe, just maybe, we have observatories and satellites studying in detail essentially every thing the sun does, in addition to all kinds of long-term proxy data?
I read section 2.7. At the very end it says:
"The level of scientific understanding is elevated to low relative to TAR for solar forcing due to direct irradiance change, while declared as very low for cosmic ray influences (Section 2.9, Table 2.11)."
Aren't they saying they don't really understand solar forcing, let alone cosmic ray influences???
Isn't the real problem caused by the IPCC Mandate:
The role of the IPCC is to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.
Doesn't say anything about looking at external influences like solar radiation or cosmic rays.
At least they acknowledged the fact that the influence is not understood...
Professor Alan 21234808 of the university at/phoentic HmAlkjAAd)&mc reported today that he and his multidimensional colleagues have finally proven the reality of Astrology.
"Yes, it does exist and can be used in many ways to explain and even control future events" PA2x23 said in a quantizied news conference from the rim of the galactic plane.
"However, I must stress that these 'Astrological Influences' are only felt in the multi universes which are bifurcated during the observation of the event."
"I truly feel the angst of those earlier scientists whose knowledge was hobbled by a basic lack of understanding of the many ways in which the Cosmos functions. But they perceived reality based upon the rules which they thought they understood. Now we that we better understand the underlying quantum chaos which we wet brains perceive as reality, it all becomes crystal clear."
Listen to it here:
http://science.nasa.gov/audio/meteor/navspasur.m3u
This link is audio detected with an ICOM R-8500 receiver tuned to 217.927 MHz SSB. The antenna is a 13 element 220 MHz. beam pointed upward and to the east. The CW signal is from a Space Radar facility in Lake Kickapoo, TX, formally called NAVSPASUR. It is now operated by the USAF.
Where I live, the US Post Office doesn't send a uniformed employee to my house with the mail. I have to drive down 2 miles of dirt road and dial into my box at the local Post Office.
Needless to say, this cuts out a LOT of rebates, which demand sending the check by US Mail to your street address. Which in my case will just get bounced.
Occasionally, the form will accept the 9 digit zip code, so I can sneak that in and hope for the best.
I've offered to write a small database to match the PO boxes with the actual street addresses, but they (the PO), couldn't care less.
Always wondered if it's legal to force US mail to a non-deliverable address, but I haven't found out anything which describes this situation.
BTW, this thing with the Internet is just a symptom of ALL the other problems in the USA - Health Care, Education, Research - you name it. The problem seems to be caused by the fact that the USA has the BEST GOVERNMENT that MONEY can BUY.
Which helps to solve that nasty problem of "oversight".
Look, the guy is 80+ years, he's been through a lot and knows a lot. More than most of us. Do ya believe he may be just more than a critical thinker? Maybe he has a way of looking at things which might be just a bit more valuable than those with less insight?
So here I live in rural, and I mean rural Vermont. No cable, no DSL. My only non dial-up connection is thru satellite. Which, if you've ever had to make a living, is not that reliable (rain fades, snow,etc. On either end of the link! Not to mention the latency - ever try SSH with a 1300ms lag?) So what to do? A T1 is $700/mo with a 5 year contract... I'll stick with the $80/mo 1.5 Mbs unreliable sat link. The state has been promoting "Broadband for all", but that's at least 3 years away - http://www.vtbroadband.org/. The only reason this issue came up is that the second home owners (read wealthy suburbanites from the Megalopis of NY and NJ) demanded it. This lack of broadband has actually slowed down the Real Estate market, which of course slows down the development sprawl, which was caused by none other than Mr. Howard (damn you to Hell) Dean. As a side note, when he was Governor, he presided over and encouraged the most disastrous legislation, known as ACT 60, which in effect, abrogated the lifestyle of native Vermonters (who live off the land they own) and helped destroy a way of life through increased property taxes. This regressive and oppressive legislation from a "Democrat". But I digress.
At any rate, this rural "progressive" state has sucked up to the powers that be and essentially ignored the needs of the citizens and businesses.
No one is asking anyone to do anything.
My dialtone comes from a box 0.2 miles down the road, from there it's fiber to the CO. When I asked Verizon about putting a DSLAM in the box, they laughed (really, they thought it was quite funny)! A DSLAM card costs over $15K. But in France, they paid $60 per card, because they did the WHOLE FRICKIN COUNTRY!
Arggh.
I love living here, just wish I could get to the rest of the planet in a timely fashion.
Cultural change (less revolutions) appears to be quite gradual. Pretty soon you wake up in that proverbial pot and it's BOILING! The longer we live the more we notice this. A few generations from now, the US Constitution will be a fond memory, if remembered at all.
One of these days, every vehicle will have an embedded RFID chip. Traffic Control systems will be designed to monitor these RFID tags. They will know if the vehicle is parked, or how fast it is moving. They may also know the source and destination for this particular tag.
Sound like a routing protocol yet???
They will know the capacity and interaction of the entire traffic system at the micro level (ie between intersections) and adjust signals in realtime to optimize this flow.
Combined with auto-guidance systems, the vehicles will move smoothly to any final destination as singular entities or massive, intelligent recombining groups.
I do not think I could have solved a problem of this magnitude, am sure the complexity is huge and the Microsoft folks are doing their best, but maybe a change in the way that features are interlocked and how those are delivered to users must be rethought.
Well, yes it is complex. But it only appears complex because of a lack of abstraction.
It is a matter of perception.
There has always been a big clash between the simple black box and the gazillion arugument camp
In case you haven't noticed, I favor the simple black box.
Let me just say that the reason why people don't fall over when they walk, or birds do not fall out of the sky when they fly is because of an interface which was designed with a very simple black box interface.
What if the CPI doesn't accurately reflect all of the currency debasement (inflation) which has taken place? Over the years, the CPI has been "adjusted" for various political reasons. If you look at the divergence in the CPI/Gold ratio from this point of view, then it seems (to me) to fit the model of what is actually happenning. At any rate, it all ends up in the same nasty mess Real Soon Now.
Let's hope Part II is about migrating servers
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If you have ever migrated a Windows NT domain to Samba, you know what I mean...
I recently had an experience where I caused a real phsyical object to be transferred from a virtual location to a real location, using just my computer and the Internet.
Every time I buy something with a credit card, I accumulate "points" which can be redeemed for various "things". These points seem to appear out of thin air. I don't pay for the credit card and I don't carry a balance, so they cost me nothing. However, unlike real cash, they evaporate after a year.
My daughter (who lives 400 miles away) mentioned the need for a griddle. I clicked on an image of 11"x18" non-stick griddle ( which cost me 12900 points), entered her home as the Ship To address and voila! Two days later it magically appeared in her kitchen...
A little slow, but it works. Is there an RFC for this protocol?
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No kidding, maybe the reason why nations haven't insisted on more emissions reductions is because that act wouldn't have any noticeable effect on global temperature change. Maybe some of the brighter individuals involved have understood that reducing carbon emissions is just a nice way of redistributing global income. Maybe they see global socialism in action... Want to play with carbon emission and temperature reduction? Feeling lucky punk? See here: http://www.cato.org/blog/current-wisdom-we-calculate-you-decide-handy-dandy-carbon-tax-temperature-savings-calculator Good luck and thanks for all the fish.
Let's talk about driving a Saab in Europe. back in the days Saab had a European pickup program where you would get 5% off list, two round trip coach tickets to the factory and shipment back to the sates. I picked up a 2001 9-5 Aero at the factory in Trollhaten and drove it for 3 weeks all over the place. From Sweden to Copenhagen, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Brugge, Zurich, Vaduz and back through France to drop it off in Paris after 3500 mi at 120 mph every day. What a way to drive that car!!! At that speed it had unbelievable handling. Travel like this is something you can't really do in the US or even in the EU anymore...
Now almost 10 years later it has 110K and I can still get it over 110 on those lonely stretches.
Still looks pretty sharp and gets 30mpg. Pretty much regular maintenance. I love it and hope it lasts another 10 years.
GM did this "car train" thing as an advanced research project back in the late 1970's in Cincinnati, OH.
Couldn't find a link, but remember reading about it.
Uh, actually his name is Halton Arp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halton_Arp
And they took the 1st photo from the "repaired" Hubble and it's an ARP galaxy???
BWAHAHAHAHA!
Alexander Tyler (a Scottish history professor at the
University of Edinburgh) had this to say about 'the fall of
the Athenian Republic' some 2,000 years prior.
'A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply
cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy
will continue to exist up until the time that voters
discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from
the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority
always votes for the candidates who promise the most
benefits from the public treasury, with the result that
every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal
policy, [which is] always followed by a dictatorship.
'The average age of the world's greatest civilizations
from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.
During those 200 years, these nations always progressed
through the following sequence:
'From bondage to spiritual faith;
'From spiritual faith to great courage;
'From courage to liberty;
'From liberty to abundance;
'From abundance to complacency;
'From complacency to apathy;
'From apathy to dependence;
'From dependence back into bondage.
No. Read section 2.7, which summarizes pretty much every peer-reviewed paper published on the subject. Not even close. I mean, seriously -- did it never occur to you that maybe, just maybe, we have observatories and satellites studying in detail essentially every thing the sun does, in addition to all kinds of long-term proxy data?
I read section 2.7. At the very end it says:
"The level of scientific understanding
is elevated to low relative to TAR for solar forcing due to direct irradiance change, while declared as very low for cosmic ray
influences (Section 2.9, Table 2.11)."
Aren't they saying they don't really understand solar forcing, let alone cosmic ray influences???
Isn't the real problem caused by the IPCC Mandate:
The role of the IPCC is to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.
Doesn't say anything about looking at external influences like solar radiation or cosmic rays.
At least they acknowledged the fact that the influence is not understood...
OK, 3 finger the thing. Reboot, apply patches, etc.
Whatever.
The Constitution was designed for this kind of problem.
Deal with it.
Big glob-o-stuff goes out the door on a known schedule.
What could be simpler?
Newsflash - Dateline 2253 - New New New York
/phoentic HmAlkjAAd)&mc reported today that he and his multidimensional colleagues have finally proven the reality of Astrology.
Astrology falls to logic!
Professor Alan 21234808 of the university at
"Yes, it does exist and can be used in many ways to explain and even control future events" PA2x23 said in a quantizied news conference from the rim of the galactic plane.
"However, I must stress that these 'Astrological Influences' are only felt in the multi universes which are bifurcated during the observation of the event."
"I truly feel the angst of those earlier scientists whose knowledge was hobbled by a basic lack of understanding of the many ways in which the Cosmos functions. But they perceived reality based upon the rules which they thought they understood. Now we that we better understand the underlying quantum chaos which we wet brains perceive as reality, it all becomes crystal clear."
Listen to it here: http://science.nasa.gov/audio/meteor/navspasur.m3u This link is audio detected with an ICOM R-8500 receiver tuned to 217.927 MHz SSB. The antenna is a 13 element 220 MHz. beam pointed upward and to the east. The CW signal is from a Space Radar facility in Lake Kickapoo, TX, formally called NAVSPASUR. It is now operated by the USAF.
Where I live, the US Post Office doesn't send a uniformed employee to my house with the mail. I have to drive down 2 miles of dirt road and dial into my box at the local Post Office.
Needless to say, this cuts out a LOT of rebates, which demand sending the check by US Mail to your street address. Which in my case will just get bounced.
Occasionally, the form will accept the 9 digit zip code, so I can sneak that in and hope for the best.
I've offered to write a small database to match the PO boxes with the actual street addresses, but they (the PO), couldn't care less.
Always wondered if it's legal to force US mail to a non-deliverable address, but I haven't found out anything which describes this situation.
I think you're right. See http://www.dynamiccity.com/city/ospn.php
BTW, this thing with the Internet is just a symptom of ALL the other problems in the USA -
Health Care, Education, Research - you name it. The problem seems to be caused by the fact that the USA has the BEST GOVERNMENT that MONEY can BUY.
Which helps to solve that nasty problem of "oversight".
Look, the guy is 80+ years, he's been through a lot and knows a lot. More than most of us.
Do ya believe he may be just more than a critical thinker? Maybe he has a way of looking at things which might be just a bit more valuable than those with less insight?
Respect your elders, it's later than you think.
So here I live in rural, and I mean rural Vermont. No cable, no DSL. My only non dial-up connection is thru satellite. Which, if you've ever had to make a living, is not that reliable (rain fades, snow,etc. On either end of the link! Not to mention the latency - ever try SSH with a 1300ms lag?) So what to do? A T1 is $700/mo with a 5 year contract... I'll stick with the $80/mo 1.5 Mbs unreliable sat link. The state has been promoting "Broadband for all", but that's at least 3 years away - http://www.vtbroadband.org/. The only reason this issue came up is that the second home owners (read wealthy suburbanites from the Megalopis of NY and NJ) demanded it. This lack of broadband has actually slowed down the Real Estate market, which of course slows down the development sprawl, which was caused by none other than Mr. Howard (damn you to Hell) Dean. As a side note, when he was Governor, he presided over and encouraged the most disastrous legislation, known as ACT 60, which in effect, abrogated the lifestyle of native Vermonters (who live off the land they own) and helped destroy a way of life through increased property taxes. This regressive and oppressive legislation from a "Democrat". But I digress.
At any rate, this rural "progressive" state has sucked up to the powers that be and essentially ignored the needs of the citizens and businesses.
No one is asking anyone to do anything.
My dialtone comes from a box 0.2 miles down the road, from there it's fiber to the CO. When I asked Verizon about putting a DSLAM in the box, they laughed (really, they thought it was quite funny)! A DSLAM card costs over $15K. But in France, they paid $60 per card, because they did the WHOLE FRICKIN COUNTRY!
Arggh.
I love living here, just wish I could get to the rest of the planet in a timely fashion.
It was 1963, kept the book below the desk, but I'm sure the teacher noticed. Also quite a few other SF books. We had a great library...
Well said.
Cultural change (less revolutions) appears to be quite gradual. Pretty soon you wake up in that proverbial pot and it's BOILING! The longer we live the more we notice this. A few generations from now, the US Constitution will be a fond memory, if remembered at all.
Don't live on Autopilot, live by example.
For reaching those more expensive places, like Africa, try http://pingo.com/
One of these days, every vehicle will have an embedded RFID chip. Traffic Control systems will be designed to monitor these RFID tags. They will know if the vehicle is parked, or how fast it is moving. They may also know the source and destination for this particular tag.
Sound like a routing protocol yet???
They will know the capacity and interaction of the entire traffic system at the micro level (ie between intersections) and adjust signals in realtime to optimize this flow.
Combined with auto-guidance systems, the vehicles will move smoothly to any final destination as singular entities or massive, intelligent recombining groups.
You heard it here first.
Well, yes it is complex. But it only appears complex because of a lack of abstraction. It is a matter of perception.
There has always been a big clash between the simple black box and the gazillion arugument camp
In case you haven't noticed, I favor the simple black box.
Let me just say that the reason why people don't fall over when they walk, or birds do not fall out of the sky when they fly is because of an interface which was designed with a very simple black box interface.
Enuf said. Either you get it or you don't.
What if the CPI doesn't accurately reflect all of the currency debasement (inflation) which has taken place? Over the years, the CPI has been "adjusted" for various political reasons. If you look at the divergence in the CPI/Gold ratio from this point of view, then it seems (to me) to fit the model of what is actually happenning. At any rate, it all ends up in the same nasty mess Real Soon Now.
If you have ever migrated a Windows NT domain to Samba, you know what I mean...
It's more than that - I've used it to bridge several remote locations (1800 ft+) with external antennae.
Very reliable.I recently had an experience where I caused a real phsyical object to be
transferred from a virtual location to a real location, using just my
computer and the Internet.
Every time I buy something with a credit card, I accumulate "points"
which can be redeemed for various "things". These points seem to appear
out of thin air. I don't pay for the credit card and I don't carry a
balance, so they cost me nothing. However, unlike real cash, they
evaporate after a year.
My daughter (who lives 400 miles away) mentioned the need for a griddle. I
clicked on an image of 11"x18" non-stick griddle ( which cost me 12900
points), entered her home as the Ship To address and voila! Two days
later it magically appeared in her kitchen...
A little slow, but it works. Is there an RFC for this protocol?
1. Make a nice campfire.
2. Place a can of your favorite beverage in the middle of the fire.
3. Retreat to a safe distance.
4. Enjoy the effects.
For a real thrill, try using a can of Starter Fluid (ether).