Better Place has been building out battery switch stations in Israel with plans for Australia and Denmark ( and possibly southern China ). Now if your talking about just popping them in and out because you don't have a robotic swap station or you're caught on the side of the road, that would need a different design - but I guess there's no need to have a single large battery.
Still, it would be quite a task for 1 person; the swap station would be the preferred method.
It's been a long time since the IE-only browser issue but from what I vaguely recall, my issue with M$ stance was their claim that IE was an intrinsic part of the OS that couldn't be removed ( I believe the judge proved them wrong on the spot ).
Since there were critical exploits, because of that IE-Windows integration, M$ was essentially and unnecessarily forcing users on a compromised platform when there were already viable ( arguably better ) alternatives that didn't compromise the entire OS.
Professional career? You mean some time spent in the mail room and then doing data entry for Imperial Oil?
He's a career politician, the only thing he's ever been any good at.
In this case, the "steak knife and sewing kit" are identical to what the surgeon is using and you're getting the anesthesiology and recovery room too.
It's like for like so looks fair to me.
Why not? Isn't that what's happened with manufacturing? If you can't compete with cheap foreign labor, you're toast.
That knife cuts both ways. I hope the judge throws out the case.
Those 2 graphs are using different baseline periods and have different start and end dates.
The NASA graph is using 1951-1980; Spencer is using 1981-2010.
Hardly surprising that they don't look at all the same.
How long are you willing to wait for the North to become arable? It takes more than ice melting to create soil.
About the money? Are you completely ignorant of how many taxpayer dollars large corporations, even hugely profitable ones, have funneled to them, on top of tax breaks and loopholes? And for how long this has been going on?
Whatever huge amount of tax bucks are being scooped by "eco freaks" for the "junk science" is a rounding error by comparison.
Most of them are Christians in the same sense that those fat, green-and-yellow painted guys with the foam cheese wedges on their heads are members of the Green Bay Packers - not true team players, just fans.
Considering that multiple independent temp reconstructions have made the Hockey Stick into a Hockey Team, his work seems to be on solid ground ( and he's been cleared of wrongdoing by 6 or 7 investigations - and no, they weren't mere cursory glances at his e-mails by colluding cronies ).
I can't be sure about your graphs above, given that there are no scales on the axes but I'm guessing that one is of the contemporary period and the other coincides with the last Dalton minimum that was aggravated by several notable volcanic eruptions.
Yes, no? Good guesses or bad?
See the worst of everyone all the time? I'm pretty sure the soldiers in Afghanistan & Iraq have it much worse and they can't get away with the bullshit that cops do on a regular basis.
Mann and Hansen have endured FAR more scrutiny and critique, on all levels than Christy or Spencer - as you're no doubt clearly aware.
And, the Hockey Stick has been appearing in many other graphs that have nothing to do directly with Mann.
Didn't Mann produce an updated reconstruction that was essentially still the same even after the McIntyre / Mckitrick criticism?
He's a real scientist too, as is Hansen.
While the events in the ice cores indicate there's still much to be learned that doesn't mean that we are somehow not at all responsible for the last century.
The London Fogs, the various great smogs, ozone depletion, acid rain and the Brown Clouds, for examples, are hallmarks of human impact.
So a single cold year would expose Hansen as conceited but 3.5 decades of progressive warming, with long-held records continually falling, and meteorologists with decades of experience claiming that "this isn't your father's climate anymore" do nothing to support any part of his position?
Christy's scientific prowess didn't prevent him from overlooking, until Mears published 2 papers, 2 years apart, the major errors in the SAT measurements.
If you are the ONLY outlier in a well established record, using newfangled methods of INDIRECT measurements, isn't the burden of proof on YOU rather than spending 15 years telling everyone else they're wrong? (This was more Spencer than Christy but they were hand-in-glove ( or sockpuppet(?):-D at UAH).
The WattsUp / Eschenbach post is interesting - 169 comments over 4 days and then nothing after that but Eschenbach makes an update a week later.
So it seems Watts closed off commenting abruptly but I guess the article author can post into the thread indefinitely.
I've seen comment threads on WUWT run in the high hundreds over the course of several weeks and threads about Hansen typically draw stone-throwers from both sides so the short shelf-life of this comment thread is curious.
Now I don't quite understand what Willis E is saying in his update about his revisions ( after Joel Shore's criticism) regarding the El Nino that started some months before the Pinatubo eruption. He claims that a complete revision shows only an insignificant change but doesn't show it.
You might be putting too much faith in stabilising feedbacks as the ice-core records show about a dozen rapid shifts in average temps, on the order of 5 deg C, in only a couple of years, This is well beyond even the most far-reaching changes predicted from now to 2100 and I certainly don't expect to see anything like that in what's left of my days but it's clear the alarmists are only middle-of-the-road Chicken Littles.
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You've been using Linux since '95 and you can't find a distro's website?
http://www.stampede.org/introduction.php
And while Wikipedia is very useful, it's pretty lame for a longtime Linux user to use that as the yardstick for a distro.
Now, if it didn't appear on Distrowatch, I'd agree that it's obscure.
Please switch permanently to Windows or Mac; you're bringing down our technorep.
Nope, that's simply free market forces in action. Conservatives will love it.
Better Place has been building out battery switch stations in Israel with plans for Australia and Denmark ( and possibly southern China ).
Now if your talking about just popping them in and out because you don't have a robotic swap station or you're caught on the side of the road, that would need a different design - but I guess there's no need to have a single large battery.
Still, it would be quite a task for 1 person; the swap station would be the preferred method.
It's been a long time since the IE-only browser issue but from what I vaguely recall, my issue with M$ stance was their claim that IE was an intrinsic part of the OS that couldn't be removed ( I believe the judge proved them wrong on the spot ). Since there were critical exploits, because of that IE-Windows integration, M$ was essentially and unnecessarily forcing users on a compromised platform when there were already viable ( arguably better ) alternatives that didn't compromise the entire OS.
Professional career? You mean some time spent in the mail room and then doing data entry for Imperial Oil?
He's a career politician, the only thing he's ever been any good at.
It's not to provide information upon request but to prevent you, as much as possible, from getting answers without being bluntly told no.
Don't bow before idiots
In this case, the "steak knife and sewing kit" are identical to what the surgeon is using and you're getting the anesthesiology and recovery room too.
It's like for like so looks fair to me.
Why not? Isn't that what's happened with manufacturing? If you can't compete with cheap foreign labor, you're toast.
That knife cuts both ways. I hope the judge throws out the case.
Actually, he's pretty damn hilarious. Now that Dane Cook guy - WTF? Somewhere there's a hotdog stand that's missing a vendor
Bill Maher talked about this a few months back - he proposed Apple make a gun and call it the iShootYou.
Those 2 graphs are using different baseline periods and have different start and end dates.
The NASA graph is using 1951-1980; Spencer is using 1981-2010.
Hardly surprising that they don't look at all the same.
How long are you willing to wait for the North to become arable? It takes more than ice melting to create soil.
About the money? Are you completely ignorant of how many taxpayer dollars large corporations, even hugely profitable ones, have funneled to them, on top of tax breaks and loopholes? And for how long this has been going on?
Whatever huge amount of tax bucks are being scooped by "eco freaks" for the "junk science" is a rounding error by comparison.
Most of them are Christians in the same sense that those fat, green-and-yellow painted guys with the foam cheese wedges on their heads are members of the Green Bay Packers - not true team players, just fans.
Mann's work refuted, how exactly?
Considering that multiple independent temp reconstructions have made the Hockey Stick into a Hockey Team, his work seems to be on solid ground ( and he's been cleared of wrongdoing by 6 or 7 investigations - and no, they weren't mere cursory glances at his e-mails by colluding cronies ).
I can't be sure about your graphs above, given that there are no scales on the axes but I'm guessing that one is of the contemporary period and the other coincides with the last Dalton minimum that was aggravated by several notable volcanic eruptions. Yes, no? Good guesses or bad?
Gosh, this comment got modded down too? Did I cause someone's anus, er, did I offend someone's delicate RightWingNut sensibilities? Oh, the humanity
Considering that Heartland tried the same tactic 5 years ago on Greenpeace, their cries of victimization ring quite hollowly.
Looks like Fred Singer, Steven Milloy and the CEI / Heartland folks will have something to distract them from denying global warming for a bit.
My, my, it seems that some Canadian authorities have a deep fascination for what might be found in ( 15000 ) rectums
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Class+action+sought+against+Vancouver+police+department+over+strip+searches/6408727/story.html
And here's another. Must be the US influence from TV or something. Or maybe just Blame Canada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFq66qIWajo
Oh Canada, they' re not that different http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1136659--kitchener-dad-arrested-at-school-after-daughter-draws-picture-of-gun
See the worst of everyone all the time? I'm pretty sure the soldiers in Afghanistan & Iraq have it much worse and they can't get away with the bullshit that cops do on a regular basis.
What's this about 0.1C per century? The warming for the last 100 years is about 8 times higher and 2/3 of that has been in just the past 30 years.
And no La Nina cooling event, regardless of strength, has reduced the temp anomaly below zero or even 0.1C since 1976.
Mann and Hansen have endured FAR more scrutiny and critique, on all levels than Christy or Spencer - as you're no doubt clearly aware. And, the Hockey Stick has been appearing in many other graphs that have nothing to do directly with Mann. Didn't Mann produce an updated reconstruction that was essentially still the same even after the McIntyre / Mckitrick criticism? He's a real scientist too, as is Hansen. While the events in the ice cores indicate there's still much to be learned that doesn't mean that we are somehow not at all responsible for the last century. The London Fogs, the various great smogs, ozone depletion, acid rain and the Brown Clouds, for examples, are hallmarks of human impact.
So a single cold year would expose Hansen as conceited but 3.5 decades of progressive warming, with long-held records continually falling, and meteorologists with decades of experience claiming that "this isn't your father's climate anymore" do nothing to support any part of his position?
:-D at UAH).
Christy's scientific prowess didn't prevent him from overlooking, until Mears published 2 papers, 2 years apart, the major errors in the SAT measurements. If you are the ONLY outlier in a well established record, using newfangled methods of INDIRECT measurements, isn't the burden of proof on YOU rather than spending 15 years telling everyone else they're wrong? (This was more Spencer than Christy but they were hand-in-glove ( or sockpuppet(?)
The WattsUp / Eschenbach post is interesting - 169 comments over 4 days and then nothing after that but Eschenbach makes an update a week later. So it seems Watts closed off commenting abruptly but I guess the article author can post into the thread indefinitely. I've seen comment threads on WUWT run in the high hundreds over the course of several weeks and threads about Hansen typically draw stone-throwers from both sides so the short shelf-life of this comment thread is curious.
Now I don't quite understand what Willis E is saying in his update about his revisions ( after Joel Shore's criticism) regarding the El Nino that started some months before the Pinatubo eruption. He claims that a complete revision shows only an insignificant change but doesn't show it.
You might be putting too much faith in stabilising feedbacks as the ice-core records show about a dozen rapid shifts in average temps, on the order of 5 deg C, in only a couple of years, This is well beyond even the most far-reaching changes predicted from now to 2100 and I certainly don't expect to see anything like that in what's left of my days but it's clear the alarmists are only middle-of-the-road Chicken Littles.