No, science is an utter failure at predicting when a hurricane (monsoon) will form in time to affect planting. Even when we know a hurricane exists, we can't accurately predict more than a a day or two in advance when and when it will make landfall. It fails to even accurately predict how many will occur in a given year without a +/- of about 20. El Nino and La Nina were known long before modern science because they are cyclic in nature. Determining when they started, after the fact, does not help adjust when to plant.
Please stop kidding yourself and others about this. This has nothing to do with how much modern science has done for us. It has done plenty, just not what you are stating.
The fact that he owns that large of a home for he and his wife is a bit telling. The fact that he owns more than one is a bit telling. Does he also shut them down entirely when he is not using them? No, then he is wasting electricity. Which hybrid limo is he being chauffered around in? How often does he travel commercial vs. private?
Yes, science has greatly improved farming (large-scale farming that makes efficient use of tractors, fertilization techniques, genetic advances, etc.) but, speaking of luddites, the liberals are pouring huge resources into undoing all those advances with their attacks on "factory farming", the push for "organic" farming, using terms such as "frankenfoods", etc.
What science has not done is improve weather forecasting to the point that it is useful for knowing when to plant and when to prepare to plant. It is barely useful for determining whether to cut hay today or wait until next week (don't worry if you don't know why weather affects cutting hay, farmers will). Farmers have been predicting when to plant for centuries and modern science has done nothing to help with that prediction and it is calculated as some offset from the first day of spring.
But do we really need a supercomputer to know when spring will arrive? Pro-tip: It will happen next year on almost exactly the same day as it did this year. Seriously, farmers have been doing this for literally centuries and the decades of super-computing haven't improved the averages in the "developed" countries
The weather for planting, as the whole climate change community is constantly saying, is weather and cannot be modeled. Only multi-decade average trends can be modeled.
No, no, no. Those are just the public reasons they gave. They are really for all the Nigerian princes to help get out the message about their uncle and his money problems. Now, we can also hear from the Tanzanian, Botswanan and Zulu princes as well.
But that doesn't matter. It is only wrong when the US expects other countries to help enforce American law and it is just as wrong when the US fails to help other countries enforce their laws. How could someone with a 4-digit UID not have figured out that simple/. rule?
Well, you see, the person who has things legally expunged gets the nice piece of paper saying that it was expunged and has some accompanying paperwork saying why and all that. All that actually holds far more weight than stuff on the internet. At least, in my particular area of reality, it does anyway.
What an awesome example of 1) why the law is being used other than what it was advertised for and 2) why the law doesn't matter. Every time some one asks for an article, etc. to be un-indexed, an article gets written detailing that request and that article then gets indexed in a never ending cycle. Next we'l be having people demanding that NSLs be used for the un-indexing.
Unless the EU goal was only to add more regulations on top of the regulations they already had. Sometimes, I am convinced that the sole "goal" of a bureaucracy is to increase itself, regardless.
I like a different definition of "selling out" that I came across recently. Selling out is when an artist decides to make money instead of starving. By that definition, they sold out pretty much from day one.
Net loss for South Park? They already got their $80 million and that was all pure profit as they were already well in the black just from airing on Comedy Central. But I don't really expect even a D grde level of economics from most/. posters.
"Only conservative idiots like you could come up with something like that. No doubt if you saw Jesus rise from death 3 days later, you idiots would ask what took him so long?" Since the general consensus is that only conservatives believe in Christ and that anyone who believes in Christ is an idiot, and pretty much the definition of Christian is believing that he rose on the 3rd day, exactly who is the target of your question?
He donated some money to a "museum" dedicated to advertising one of his products, no samples of which are so unique or old that they deserve to be in a museum. And that suggests an altruistic tendency? I'm not saying he doesn't have any but that is NOT an example of one.
Why? The way he did it means that others of his ilk will be able to use his post as a source that Republicans actually did it. His side tend to work that way quite often.
Yes, I get it that and kind of now regret my smart-ass comment. It was kind of trollish. I wanted to see how others might compare identity theft to IP theft. To me, they are very similar.
The health care industry was the employer. Did you really think that it was just a major coincidence that only those patients who were also doctors had their SSNs leaked?
Yeah, like that is really verified. Just google "voter registration" to find out why that can't really be considered valid in the US. Yes, we really do have a major political party that has dedicated itself to the notion of allowing anyone to vote, regardless of eligibility (citizenship).
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No, science is an utter failure at predicting when a hurricane (monsoon) will form in time to affect planting. Even when we know a hurricane exists, we can't accurately predict more than a a day or two in advance when and when it will make landfall. It fails to even accurately predict how many will occur in a given year without a +/- of about 20. El Nino and La Nina were known long before modern science because they are cyclic in nature. Determining when they started, after the fact, does not help adjust when to plant.
Please stop kidding yourself and others about this. This has nothing to do with how much modern science has done for us. It has done plenty, just not what you are stating.
The fact that he owns that large of a home for he and his wife is a bit telling. The fact that he owns more than one is a bit telling. Does he also shut them down entirely when he is not using them? No, then he is wasting electricity. Which hybrid limo is he being chauffered around in? How often does he travel commercial vs. private?
Yes, science has greatly improved farming (large-scale farming that makes efficient use of tractors, fertilization techniques, genetic advances, etc.) but, speaking of luddites, the liberals are pouring huge resources into undoing all those advances with their attacks on "factory farming", the push for "organic" farming, using terms such as "frankenfoods", etc.
What science has not done is improve weather forecasting to the point that it is useful for knowing when to plant and when to prepare to plant. It is barely useful for determining whether to cut hay today or wait until next week (don't worry if you don't know why weather affects cutting hay, farmers will). Farmers have been predicting when to plant for centuries and modern science has done nothing to help with that prediction and it is calculated as some offset from the first day of spring.
But do we really need a supercomputer to know when spring will arrive? Pro-tip: It will happen next year on almost exactly the same day as it did this year. Seriously, farmers have been doing this for literally centuries and the decades of super-computing haven't improved the averages in the "developed" countries
The weather for planting, as the whole climate change community is constantly saying, is weather and cannot be modeled. Only multi-decade average trends can be modeled.
No, no, no. Those are just the public reasons they gave. They are really for all the Nigerian princes to help get out the message about their uncle and his money problems. Now, we can also hear from the Tanzanian, Botswanan and Zulu princes as well.
But that doesn't matter. It is only wrong when the US expects other countries to help enforce American law and it is just as wrong when the US fails to help other countries enforce their laws. How could someone with a 4-digit UID not have figured out that simple /. rule?
Well, you see, the person who has things legally expunged gets the nice piece of paper saying that it was expunged and has some accompanying paperwork saying why and all that. All that actually holds far more weight than stuff on the internet. At least, in my particular area of reality, it does anyway.
Yeah, because it sucks when people base their impression of you based on things you actually did.
What an awesome example of 1) why the law is being used other than what it was advertised for and 2) why the law doesn't matter. Every time some one asks for an article, etc. to be un-indexed, an article gets written detailing that request and that article then gets indexed in a never ending cycle. Next we'l be having people demanding that NSLs be used for the un-indexing.
Unless the EU goal was only to add more regulations on top of the regulations they already had. Sometimes, I am convinced that the sole "goal" of a bureaucracy is to increase itself, regardless.
I call bullshit. Only the USA could possibly do anything this evil. At least, that is what I have learned from reading /.
I like a different definition of "selling out" that I came across recently. Selling out is when an artist decides to make money instead of starving. By that definition, they sold out pretty much from day one.
Net loss for South Park? They already got their $80 million and that was all pure profit as they were already well in the black just from airing on Comedy Central. But I don't really expect even a D grde level of economics from most /. posters.
"Only conservative idiots like you could come up with something like that. No doubt if you saw Jesus rise from death 3 days later, you idiots would ask what took him so long?" Since the general consensus is that only conservatives believe in Christ and that anyone who believes in Christ is an idiot, and pretty much the definition of Christian is believing that he rose on the 3rd day, exactly who is the target of your question?
He donated some money to a "museum" dedicated to advertising one of his products, no samples of which are so unique or old that they deserve to be in a museum. And that suggests an altruistic tendency? I'm not saying he doesn't have any but that is NOT an example of one.
"Capitalist Russia" Now that is funny.
Why? The way he did it means that others of his ilk will be able to use his post as a source that Republicans actually did it. His side tend to work that way quite often.
Seriously, you think the term 1%er is a term of endearment?
We already have a negative income tax in the US. It is called EITC; look it up and learn something new.
Uh, government involvement is what causes the freerider problem.
Yes, I get it that and kind of now regret my smart-ass comment. It was kind of trollish. I wanted to see how others might compare identity theft to IP theft. To me, they are very similar.
Ah yes, the typical liberal answer to debate. What exactly is cruel? And who are you to decide they are wrong?
The health care industry was the employer. Did you really think that it was just a major coincidence that only those patients who were also doctors had their SSNs leaked?
Yeah, like that is really verified. Just google "voter registration" to find out why that can't really be considered valid in the US. Yes, we really do have a major political party that has dedicated itself to the notion of allowing anyone to vote, regardless of eligibility (citizenship).
Exactly how can you steal someone's identity? Aren't they still there? Don't their friends still know them? This just makes no sense.