True but this may make desert reclamation feasible or even profitable. That won't be cheap or easy but if we can reclaim 1/3 of what is now too dry to farm and use desalinated water instead of aquifers, it would make for a much different world.
Musk / Tesla seem averse to making ICE hybrids so it'l probably be an add-on battery pack / fuel cell like the one Phinergy demonstrated a few years back.
Google's self driving cars have racked up over 1 million miles in the past few years. They're probably already capable of a coast-to-coast autonomous trip - in good weather. What's uncertain is if they can cope with really poor driving conditions. http://venturebeat.com/2015/06...
Going back a couple centuries, quite a bit. Even if measurements back then weren't up to modern standards, there's plenty of writing about the temps & the seasons. It was much more a factor in daily survival than it is now and more difficult to cope with.
"Lastly they are run by 2 scientists with good credentials (Dr Mears & Dr Spencer respectively) "
Spencer? Sorry, but Dr Roy developed dementia emerititus quite early. Apart from his creationist views, there's this from 2011:
"I would wager that my job has helped save our economy from the economic ravages of out-of-control environmental extremism. I view my job a little like a legislator, supported by the taxpayer, to protect the interests of the taxpayer and to minimize the role of government. If I and others are ultimately successful, it may well be that my job is no longer needed. Well then, that is progress. There are other things I can do"
That's not the heart of a pure scientist, that's beating in the chest of a person with an agenda.
Actually if the AGW camp is right, you may not have to wait very long. The record highs won't topple every year but will be surpassed much more frequently. Quite a few places have been seeing the effects through flooding where what used to be a once-a-decade flood is nearly an annual event and what used to be once-a-century happens every 5-10 years.
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True but this may make desert reclamation feasible or even profitable. That won't be cheap or easy but if we can reclaim 1/3 of what is now too dry to farm and use desalinated water instead of aquifers, it would make for a much different world.
You don't have any Juniper or Cisco gear at any of your "mission-critical" sites?
If you do, there's plenty of Linux running underneath.
dump into the biggest volcano you can find, then nuke it until there's nothing left but ...wait...for...it...a caldera.
SOP for rubycodez
For now, I just don't see this working and don't expect it to be in my lifetime, unless I live to an age unheard of in my family.
Wasn't this around the time Obama said on TV that he "wouldn't be scrambling jets to get a 29 year old .....hacker"
After all, they can't call it FW-1 or , if you prefer, Firewall One.
How does "several centuries BCE" plus 1400 years = 14th century??
Musk / Tesla seem averse to making ICE hybrids so it'l probably be an add-on battery pack / fuel cell like the one Phinergy demonstrated a few years back.
The visual image of Limbaugh bawling like a baby fills me with elation and deep disgust.
That, according to Fox News, was the Chevy Volt
+5 Insightful
Progressives don't want HillaryClinton. They want Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.
Sounds to me that they might be able to use the data from Mobileye or Tesla if either could be convinced to share.
Love the .sig, Oliver Reed's last role.
R.I.P you crazy drunken Brit tough guy.
What?? They can't use Google Maps?! :-D
City driving is MUCH harder than highway.
Pretty sure Google's autonomous cars are already doing just that.
You forgot "In Soviet Russia,"
Your Tesla shorts are becoming uncomfortably thong-like? Pity.
Google's self driving cars have racked up over 1 million miles in the past few years. They're probably already capable of a coast-to-coast autonomous trip - in good weather.
What's uncertain is if they can cope with really poor driving conditions.
http://venturebeat.com/2015/06...
Going back a couple centuries, quite a bit. Even if measurements back then weren't up to modern standards, there's plenty of writing about the temps & the seasons.
It was much more a factor in daily survival than it is now and more difficult to cope with.
If it's not measuring temp accurately, then it doesn't matter how simple it is.
"Lastly they are run by 2 scientists with good credentials (Dr Mears & Dr Spencer respectively) "
Spencer? Sorry, but Dr Roy developed dementia emerititus quite early. Apart from his creationist views, there's this from 2011:
"I would wager that my job has helped save our economy from the economic ravages of out-of-control environmental extremism.
I view my job a little like a legislator, supported by the taxpayer, to protect the interests of the taxpayer and to minimize the role of government.
If I and others are ultimately successful, it may well be that my job is no longer needed. Well then, that is progress. There are other things I can do"
That's not the heart of a pure scientist, that's beating in the chest of a person with an agenda.
Actually if the AGW camp is right, you may not have to wait very long. The record highs won't topple every year but will be surpassed much more frequently.
Quite a few places have been seeing the effects through flooding where what used to be a once-a-decade flood is nearly an annual event and what used to be once-a-century happens every 5-10 years.