Strangely, it is. There are rights like the "right to your own picture". As the person depicted in the movie, who is not just some random person in the background, but prominently featured, she has the final say about any publication. Uploading that movie to any publicly accessible site denies her that right and is illegal.
Having a free pass to do something illegal, just because someone else was stupid.
Yes, it is stupid for instance not to lock your front door. But it is still illegal to burglar a house with an unlocked door. Everyone who forwarded the video was doing something illegal. And it is not the fault of the woman when someone else does something illegal. It's primarily the fault of the people doing something illegal. But she was still suffering the consequences of someone else acting against the law.
Whoever excuses criminal behavior with the stupidity of someone else has a deeply twisted mind.
There are several kinds of sugar. Our body can make direct use only of a single type of sugar, glucose. All other sugar types have to be digested and converted into glucose. There are monosaccharides (glucose, galactose, fructose). Monosaccharides like galactose and fructose get converted into glucose in the liver. There are disaccharides (maltose, lactose, saccharose), which get split into their monosaccharide components in the gut. There are polysaccharides (starch, cellulose, glycogen), which already are split by saliva and in the stomach into disaccharides. In fact, we can't split cellulose at all. Albeit it's pure sugar from a chemical point of view, it leaves the body without getting metabolized. It is one of the main components of the fiber in the food.
Glycogen is the way our body stores sugar in the muscles and in the liver. Glucose is the type of sugar that gets converted into energy in the cells. All other types of sugar require some effort and lots of enzymes in our digestive system. If some of the enzymes are missing, our body can't use that special type of sugar. But the gut bacteria can, and their metabolism can upsed our digestive system. That's what lactose intolerance means for instance. High fructose corn syrup means that we get a lot of a type of sugar we can't use directly: Fructose. It has to be metabolized in the liver into glucose, and it thus avoids the insulin control system which normally would control the glucose level. In time, cells might get less and less responsive to the insulin signalization, and we get Diabetes II. The effect is less strong with saccharose, the normal white sugar, as its molecules are made up of a pair of glucose and fructose. Thus normal white sugar causes an insulin answer, but not as strong as pure glucose. Thus white sugar is not as dangerous for the insulin system as fructose. Starch in turn consists of long chains of glucose, and it thus causes the full insuline answer, and thus in itself not a thread to the insulin system.
You have a very U.S. mass media point of view. As the parent poster rightly stated: Global warming denial at that scale is something you only find in the U.S.. In every other country I know of, Global warming denial is on par in acceptance with the flat earthers, the moon hoaxers and simiar people.
How do you explain the fact that the original research paper (which had the flaw you mentioned) was long ago corrected, and the updated methology does not produce a hockey stick anymore on random data, but still shows the hockey stick on actual weather data?
Yes, there was a flaw in a scientific paper. People err. This flaw was corrected, but what was never updated was the accusation. You are basing your claim on false data.
Not necessarily. You could have a second article about a heliocentric system, and maybe a third one discussing the merits of a geocentric and a heliocentric system. Just keep the original article about the heliocentric system intact! There is no reason to vandalize it just because you have a second possible description of the events in the sky. In fact, it took about 250 years between Copernicus's de revolutionibus and Isaac Newton's theory of gracvity, which finally allowed the heliocentric system to catch up in prognostic accuracy to the geocentric one! For those 250 years, simply writing "it's wrong!" into the article about the geocentric system indeed would have been vandalism. Until about 1700, the geocentric system, albeit horribly complicated with its cycles and epicycles and without any real explanation why they are needed, was simply the better prognostic tool for astronomy.
Any database will always be susceptible to containing bad data. Even those that follow the scientific methology. Any data is only preliminary, and will be thrown out until better data comes in. What you totally ignore is how to determine which of two conflicting data points is more close to be real. Wikipedia doesn't do research. That's one very important concept of Wikipedia: no original research. If the people doing the original research are losing interest in Wikipedia, or are run over by a bus, Wikipedia loses any reference point for the data they entered. So what you get is stale data and no way to find out if it is both valid and relevant. If you ban original research from Wikipedia, you at least can vouch for the relevance of the data by checking if research is still going on outside of Wikipedia, and if you can find someone to keep the Wikipedia data up-to-date.
So your blurb about the scientific method is irrelevant for Wikipedia, as Wikipedia is just a mirror of what happens outside of it. You need other criteria to determine which data in Wikipeda to keep and which data to throw out. Checking for possible vandalism is just one of the methods to throw out irrelevant data and to keep relevant data that got overwritten by vandalism..
It is. It's theorizing about a conspiracy which had two goals: a) killing more than 3000 people. b) blame it on a group of twenty other people who will die during the event. (In fact, it was only 19 people as one of the alleged terrorists missed his appointment.)
So yes, it's a theory about a conspiracy, thus a conspiracy theory.
Being able to work full time for a living ist already some type of entitlement. Be glad to be in that situation and not to have two or three McJobs instead!
Panspermia in general is just some side hypothesis without much science behind. Organic compounds are quite aboundant in space, and they form spontaneoulsly if conditions are right, so there is no need to hypotheze that the organic compounds on Earth had some extraterrestical origin. Some of them might actually come from somewhere else, but organic compounds tend to be quite fragile when it comes to the conditions around a meteorite impact, and the few molecules that survive tend to be drown into lakes and puddles with billions of other organic molecules already there.
It has not necessarily to do with not offending anyone.
Rolls Royce for instance had a model named Silver Mist. It never sold in Germany. But not because someone was offended by the name, just because Mist in German means manure or garbage. Who would drive an expensive car and tell everyone that he drives manure?
The E number is the body. As you can mount different engines into the same body, and have different shapes (sedan, station wagon, coupé...) based on the same body, the E number tells you the actual body. BMW doesn't have model years as the american manufacturers do, but the E number is a close relative.
For Mercedes and BMW it worked, because you could just tell from the specs how the car was called. You knew that an Mercedes with a 3.0 litre injection engine was most likely be called the 300 E (Einspritzung being the german word for injection). You knew that a 320 ti was a compact BMW with a 2.0 litre twin cam injection engine.
Since a few years, especially BMW has left that path, and now there is no connection between specs and naming anymore. Mercedes decided that the E no longer points to the type of the engine, but shall denote the size, E being the medium sized Mercedes cars. It's to early to tell if the new naming scheme eats into the selling numbers of BMW and Mercedes.
In reality, there is not. You can keep your news outlets within the EU. You just don't ask for the fee you will be entitled to if this becomes law. About half of the german news outlets did so, when the german version of the law was introduced, and the other news outlets which asked for a fee, caved within some months because of their visitor numbers plummeting.
In the EU, it is basicly the same. Small snippets are not considered copyright infringment. And that is the issue at hand. The publishers alleged that Google News is a source of income for Google, as they place advertisements there, and they thus are profiting from the publisher's work, though it doesn't collide with Copyright Law. And thus the publishers pressed for changes and a special exception from the snippet exception, first in Belgium (it failed after a few years), then in Germany (it failed within months) and Spain (not sure, how long it took to fail).
What's more sad: There were some local news aggregators in Germany, which couldn't afford the license fees and thus closed shop when the law went into effect. And now we are left with even less news aggregators which have even more market power.
Desertification along the 23th latitude has the same cause everywhere. It's called Intertropical Convergence Zone. Because the Sun stands highest in the region around the equator, temperatures are the highest there, and warm air rises every day, taking much water vapor with it into heights up to 20 km. Here, the water condenses, and each evening just before sunset, you have heavy rain along the equator, hence the rain forests. The dry air floats to the side, making room for more warm, wet air coming up. Around the equator, you now have regular winds blowing to the equator. They are called trade winds, and they blow from northwest to the south east in the northern hemisphere and from southwest to the northeast in the southern hemisphere.
The dry air in 20 km height cools and sinks down north and south of the equator, causing a girdle of high air pressure north and south of the equator. But because the air is now dry, having lost most of its water vapor above the equator, it heats much faster when it sinks down. Thus, air coming up from the ground due to being heated during the day, stops somewhere inbetween, because warmer air sinks down, and the convection stops where both meet. As the air is not cool enough for clouds to form, there is no rain where both streams meet. This effect is called an temperature inversion, because the normal layering of the atmosphere with air getting cooler if you get higher is inverted.
Luckily, the zenith of the sun wanders along the year between both the northern and the southern Tropic, thus at least once a year, those regions get heavy rains. They thus have two seaons: the dry season and the wet seasons. Regions closer to the equator sometimes have two wet seasons. The wet season gets shorter and less intense if you get closer to the Tropics. Outside the Tropics, there is no wet season, thus you have desertification along both Tropics.
Before you call me naive, please get at least some basic meteorologic knowledge!
Apparently, they don't. Global population density is highest between the 30th and 50th latitude. If you get into warmer climates, population density shrinks.
2) crops grow better
Most food crops are harvested between 30th and 50th latitude too. Around the 23th latitude (both north and south) you have either large deserts, where nothing grows, or you have the rain forests, which don't have any meaningful soils to put food crops on.
3) a warmer earth has more farmable pand
No, it hasn't. Most farmable land today (90%) lies at less than 100 ft above sea level. If sea levels rise, a large portion of it will be subdued. Yes, Siberia might lose its permafrost. But most of Siberia is either montainous (the whole east of Siberia), or it is far away from any oceans and thus doesn't get much rain. In fact, a Siberia without permafrost will probably turn into a steppe fast (the southern part of Siberia is a steppe already), and finally into a desert, similar to Australia. Thus, no additional farmable land in Siberia.
4) less enerygy, not more is required to live in warmer climates
Because of 1), much more energy will be spend on air conditioning, while many buildings in today's colder climates don't need much heating even during winter season, because they are built as low energy houses, where just the short sun period during the day is sufficient to heat the house enough for the inhabitants.
Global warming is a *good* thing.
We are perfectly adapted to today's warming levels. Global warming above today's levels is a bad thing.
But so far, none of the displays I know of do this. That's problem with the handset manufacturers, not with the telco providers. If you look into the setup messages coming from the provider, both numbers are present in their respective carrier provided and user provided caller ID fields. Handsets thus display the user provided caller ID if present, and the carrier provided caller ID else.
I'm doing phone switches for a living, and I know that most customers order CLIP no screening because of the forwarding issue. Especially people on-call want the number of the original caller on their display and not the number of their office phone or that of the attendant dispatching the call to them. And without CLIP no screening, the original caller ID gets filtered out on the PSTN.
Also, your "call forwarding" problem is a red herring. The abusing party would need control over the forwarding phone (the target needs to be switched to the intended victim before each call) -- which need to be registered to the company the abuser wants to spoof.
This is not a problem. Just have a front business, buy a phone switch, add "CLIP no screening" to your line, and you are done. Your real phone number is never shown to the person you call, but you can spoof whatever caller ID you want - until you get bust.
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Strangely, it is. There are rights like the "right to your own picture". As the person depicted in the movie, who is not just some random person in the background, but prominently featured, she has the final say about any publication. Uploading that movie to any publicly accessible site denies her that right and is illegal.
You messed up two things.
Yes, it is stupid for instance not to lock your front door. But it is still illegal to burglar a house with an unlocked door. Everyone who forwarded the video was doing something illegal. And it is not the fault of the woman when someone else does something illegal. It's primarily the fault of the people doing something illegal. But she was still suffering the consequences of someone else acting against the law.
Whoever excuses criminal behavior with the stupidity of someone else has a deeply twisted mind.
Glycogen is the way our body stores sugar in the muscles and in the liver. Glucose is the type of sugar that gets converted into energy in the cells. All other types of sugar require some effort and lots of enzymes in our digestive system. If some of the enzymes are missing, our body can't use that special type of sugar. But the gut bacteria can, and their metabolism can upsed our digestive system. That's what lactose intolerance means for instance. High fructose corn syrup means that we get a lot of a type of sugar we can't use directly: Fructose. It has to be metabolized in the liver into glucose, and it thus avoids the insulin control system which normally would control the glucose level. In time, cells might get less and less responsive to the insulin signalization, and we get Diabetes II. The effect is less strong with saccharose, the normal white sugar, as its molecules are made up of a pair of glucose and fructose. Thus normal white sugar causes an insulin answer, but not as strong as pure glucose. Thus white sugar is not as dangerous for the insulin system as fructose. Starch in turn consists of long chains of glucose, and it thus causes the full insuline answer, and thus in itself not a thread to the insulin system.
You have a very U.S. mass media point of view. As the parent poster rightly stated: Global warming denial at that scale is something you only find in the U.S.. In every other country I know of, Global warming denial is on par in acceptance with the flat earthers, the moon hoaxers and simiar people.
Yes, there was a flaw in a scientific paper. People err. This flaw was corrected, but what was never updated was the accusation. You are basing your claim on false data.
Not necessarily. You could have a second article about a heliocentric system, and maybe a third one discussing the merits of a geocentric and a heliocentric system. Just keep the original article about the heliocentric system intact! There is no reason to vandalize it just because you have a second possible description of the events in the sky. In fact, it took about 250 years between Copernicus's de revolutionibus and Isaac Newton's theory of gracvity, which finally allowed the heliocentric system to catch up in prognostic accuracy to the geocentric one! For those 250 years, simply writing "it's wrong!" into the article about the geocentric system indeed would have been vandalism. Until about 1700, the geocentric system, albeit horribly complicated with its cycles and epicycles and without any real explanation why they are needed, was simply the better prognostic tool for astronomy.
So your blurb about the scientific method is irrelevant for Wikipedia, as Wikipedia is just a mirror of what happens outside of it. You need other criteria to determine which data in Wikipeda to keep and which data to throw out. Checking for possible vandalism is just one of the methods to throw out irrelevant data and to keep relevant data that got overwritten by vandalism..
So yes, it's a theory about a conspiracy, thus a conspiracy theory.
Being able to work full time for a living ist already some type of entitlement. Be glad to be in that situation and not to have two or three McJobs instead!
Panspermia in general is just some side hypothesis without much science behind. Organic compounds are quite aboundant in space, and they form spontaneoulsly if conditions are right, so there is no need to hypotheze that the organic compounds on Earth had some extraterrestical origin. Some of them might actually come from somewhere else, but organic compounds tend to be quite fragile when it comes to the conditions around a meteorite impact, and the few molecules that survive tend to be drown into lakes and puddles with billions of other organic molecules already there.
Rolls Royce for instance had a model named Silver Mist. It never sold in Germany. But not because someone was offended by the name, just because Mist in German means manure or garbage. Who would drive an expensive car and tell everyone that he drives manure?
The E number is the body. As you can mount different engines into the same body, and have different shapes (sedan, station wagon, coupé...) based on the same body, the E number tells you the actual body. BMW doesn't have model years as the american manufacturers do, but the E number is a close relative.
The Z8 and Z9 are named thus because the project began as Z07 with Z meaning roadster, and 07 being a homage to the BMW 507 from the 1950ies.
Since a few years, especially BMW has left that path, and now there is no connection between specs and naming anymore. Mercedes decided that the E no longer points to the type of the engine, but shall denote the size, E being the medium sized Mercedes cars. It's to early to tell if the new naming scheme eats into the selling numbers of BMW and Mercedes.
In reality, there is not. You can keep your news outlets within the EU. You just don't ask for the fee you will be entitled to if this becomes law. About half of the german news outlets did so, when the german version of the law was introduced, and the other news outlets which asked for a fee, caved within some months because of their visitor numbers plummeting.
Local news matter to locals. That's the only part of your post that you got right.
What's more sad: There were some local news aggregators in Germany, which couldn't afford the license fees and thus closed shop when the law went into effect. And now we are left with even less news aggregators which have even more market power.
From American sources, you usually don't get that much European news.
I'm withdrawing my comment.
According to the study, it's the reverse. If you post more, you are less likely to be depressed.
The dry air in 20 km height cools and sinks down north and south of the equator, causing a girdle of high air pressure north and south of the equator. But because the air is now dry, having lost most of its water vapor above the equator, it heats much faster when it sinks down. Thus, air coming up from the ground due to being heated during the day, stops somewhere inbetween, because warmer air sinks down, and the convection stops where both meet. As the air is not cool enough for clouds to form, there is no rain where both streams meet. This effect is called an temperature inversion, because the normal layering of the atmosphere with air getting cooler if you get higher is inverted.
Luckily, the zenith of the sun wanders along the year between both the northern and the southern Tropic, thus at least once a year, those regions get heavy rains. They thus have two seaons: the dry season and the wet seasons. Regions closer to the equator sometimes have two wet seasons. The wet season gets shorter and less intense if you get closer to the Tropics. Outside the Tropics, there is no wet season, thus you have desertification along both Tropics.
Before you call me naive, please get at least some basic meteorologic knowledge!
Some basics for you:
1) humans do better in warmer climates
Apparently, they don't. Global population density is highest between the 30th and 50th latitude. If you get into warmer climates, population density shrinks.
2) crops grow better
Most food crops are harvested between 30th and 50th latitude too. Around the 23th latitude (both north and south) you have either large deserts, where nothing grows, or you have the rain forests, which don't have any meaningful soils to put food crops on.
3) a warmer earth has more farmable pand
No, it hasn't. Most farmable land today (90%) lies at less than 100 ft above sea level. If sea levels rise, a large portion of it will be subdued. Yes, Siberia might lose its permafrost. But most of Siberia is either montainous (the whole east of Siberia), or it is far away from any oceans and thus doesn't get much rain. In fact, a Siberia without permafrost will probably turn into a steppe fast (the southern part of Siberia is a steppe already), and finally into a desert, similar to Australia. Thus, no additional farmable land in Siberia.
4) less enerygy, not more is required to live in warmer climates
Because of 1), much more energy will be spend on air conditioning, while many buildings in today's colder climates don't need much heating even during winter season, because they are built as low energy houses, where just the short sun period during the day is sufficient to heat the house enough for the inhabitants.
Global warming is a *good* thing.
We are perfectly adapted to today's warming levels. Global warming above today's levels is a bad thing.
I'm doing phone switches for a living, and I know that most customers order CLIP no screening because of the forwarding issue. Especially people on-call want the number of the original caller on their display and not the number of their office phone or that of the attendant dispatching the call to them. And without CLIP no screening, the original caller ID gets filtered out on the PSTN.
Also, your "call forwarding" problem is a red herring. The abusing party would need control over the forwarding phone (the target needs to be switched to the intended victim before each call) -- which need to be registered to the company the abuser wants to spoof.
This is not a problem. Just have a front business, buy a phone switch, add "CLIP no screening" to your line, and you are done. Your real phone number is never shown to the person you call, but you can spoof whatever caller ID you want - until you get bust.