I got over my cockroach phobia pretty quickly after moving into my new house. They were coming into my house and I traced them back to the hole in the ground where the water meter is. My solution, not wanting to get too close, was to pour poison into hole. Ten minutes later my driveway, garage, and front yard were covered with dozens of stunned cockroaches that had crawled out of their makeshift cave looking for some other dark place to live, which included the firewood pile, every corner and edge of the building, and under my car tires. I had to round them up one by one (using a broom and dustpan!) and get rid of them. I collected them in a bucket, drowned them in more poison, and buried them. Not so afraid of cockroaches any more. But they still gross me out!
This topic screams for a natural experiment. Cell phone usage has grown at different rates in different countries. Compare the rate of brain cancer to the rate of cell phone usage in each country and how they change over time. This is how many public health problems are studied. It is not a foolproof method, but it's much better than a survey. The biggest challenge will be knowing brain cancer rates in developing countries, although I imagine hospitals in the big cities will have some useful data.
Parking meters don't just take in money, they help moderate the usage of the space.
Not only that, parking meters also shift some of the costs of our transportation network onto the people who are actually using it, like toll roads. They are economically preferable to taxes for paying for related infrastructure.
I need to go back in for testing to make sure that it's recovered, and will be taking 5000 units per week until I can find a better way to get direct sunlight on a regular basis, but that's really it.
This was not about children eating healthier. It was about gum and hard candy making a mess and being banned by the school district.
The small school district, which has three campuses in Orchard and Wallis, bans gum and candy because, [Superintendent] Ellis said, “It creates a mess. It's all over your furniture and your floors.”
To Jack Ellis, superintendent of Brazos Independent School District, the story is simple: The district prohibits students from having candy and gum on campus, and the third-graders broke the rules. Ellis defended Principal Jeanne Young's decision to give the girls five days of detention, which they served during recess and lunch.
Amber Brazda, the mother of 10-year-old Leighann Adair, said her daughter came home from Brazos Elementary School in tears Monday after getting punished for having a Jolly Rancher at lunch. The friend who gave her the hard candy also got in trouble.
To Jack Ellis, superintendent of Brazos Independent School District, the story is simple: The district prohibits students from having candy and gum on campus, and the third-graders broke the rules. Ellis defended Principal Jeanne Young's decision to give the girls five days of detention, which they served during recess and lunch.
Not sure why this is modded insightful. There are important qualifiers to all of your statements in order for them to matter in this discussion:
The temperature of the earth is warming over time.
It only matters if the temperature of the earth is warming through the timeframe that humanity has been settled throughout the globe, or at least within a range of climate zones.
The amount of this warming is unprecedented.
Again, this only matters within the relatively short timeframe that humanity has been settled throughout the globe, or at least within a range of climate zones.
The warming will continue past the point where the earth's feedback mechanisms can correct it.
... in the short term. It doesn't matter if the earth can correct in 100,000 years. What matters is whether the earth can correct what we are doing in 100 years.
The warming will cause catastrophic impacts to life on earth, particularly humans.
This one is okay, but how falsifying this falsify point 5? Also, this is one of the few points you listed that is pretty well proven. See sea level rise, which will have catastrophic economic consequences at the very least.
The warming is caused by human activity, if not entirely, then mostly.
This is totally irrelevant. What matters is whether humans can do something to reduce the warming, and only that they can do enough to avoid a tipping point at which catastrophe is inevitable. Yes, this implies that humans have something to do with the warming if one is arguing for reduced emissions as a solution, but who knows what percentage it is? If we are responsible for 30% of the warming, will reducing warming by 20% reduce the likelihood of catastrophic warming?
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Well that was easy. Thank you.
The AHA are a joke - still recommending low fat diets - without any scientific evidence.
25-35% of daily calories from fat does not sound like a "low fat" diet to me: http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=532
The answer is both gamma and x-ray. Odds are it is one of these: http://www.saic.com/products/transportation/icis/
I got over my cockroach phobia pretty quickly after moving into my new house. They were coming into my house and I traced them back to the hole in the ground where the water meter is. My solution, not wanting to get too close, was to pour poison into hole. Ten minutes later my driveway, garage, and front yard were covered with dozens of stunned cockroaches that had crawled out of their makeshift cave looking for some other dark place to live, which included the firewood pile, every corner and edge of the building, and under my car tires. I had to round them up one by one (using a broom and dustpan!) and get rid of them. I collected them in a bucket, drowned them in more poison, and buried them. Not so afraid of cockroaches any more. But they still gross me out!
This topic screams for a natural experiment. Cell phone usage has grown at different rates in different countries. Compare the rate of brain cancer to the rate of cell phone usage in each country and how they change over time. This is how many public health problems are studied. It is not a foolproof method, but it's much better than a survey. The biggest challenge will be knowing brain cancer rates in developing countries, although I imagine hospitals in the big cities will have some useful data.
you can ... hunker down in it's sweet spot and let the tranny worry about all the fiddly bits
Sounds like a typical Friday night for me!
Parking meters don't just take in money, they help moderate the usage of the space.
Not only that, parking meters also shift some of the costs of our transportation network onto the people who are actually using it, like toll roads. They are economically preferable to taxes for paying for related infrastructure.
I need to go back in for testing to make sure that it's recovered, and will be taking 5000 units per week until I can find a better way to get direct sunlight on a regular basis, but that's really it.
I'd start with leaving the basement.
The small school district, which has three campuses in Orchard and Wallis, bans gum and candy because, [Superintendent] Ellis said, “It creates a mess. It's all over your furniture and your floors.”
from http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/education/Candy_is_dandy__but_not_at_school_3rd-grader_learns.html
To Jack Ellis, superintendent of Brazos Independent School District, the story is simple: The district prohibits students from having candy and gum on campus, and the third-graders broke the rules. Ellis defended Principal Jeanne Young's decision to give the girls five days of detention, which they served during recess and lunch.
from http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/education/Candy_is_dandy__but_not_at_school_3rd-grader_learns.html
Amber Brazda, the mother of 10-year-old Leighann Adair, said her daughter came home from Brazos Elementary School in tears Monday after getting punished for having a Jolly Rancher at lunch. The friend who gave her the hard candy also got in trouble.
To Jack Ellis, superintendent of Brazos Independent School District, the story is simple: The district prohibits students from having candy and gum on campus, and the third-graders broke the rules. Ellis defended Principal Jeanne Young's decision to give the girls five days of detention, which they served during recess and lunch.
from http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/education/Candy_is_dandy__but_not_at_school_3rd-grader_learns.html
Your rant is misplaced.
The temperature of the earth is warming over time.
It only matters if the temperature of the earth is warming through the timeframe that humanity has been settled throughout the globe, or at least within a range of climate zones.
The amount of this warming is unprecedented.
Again, this only matters within the relatively short timeframe that humanity has been settled throughout the globe, or at least within a range of climate zones.
The warming will continue past the point where the earth's feedback mechanisms can correct it.
... in the short term. It doesn't matter if the earth can correct in 100,000 years. What matters is whether the earth can correct what we are doing in 100 years.
The warming will cause catastrophic impacts to life on earth, particularly humans.
This one is okay, but how falsifying this falsify point 5? Also, this is one of the few points you listed that is pretty well proven. See sea level rise, which will have catastrophic economic consequences at the very least.
The warming is caused by human activity, if not entirely, then mostly.
This is totally irrelevant. What matters is whether humans can do something to reduce the warming, and only that they can do enough to avoid a tipping point at which catastrophe is inevitable. Yes, this implies that humans have something to do with the warming if one is arguing for reduced emissions as a solution, but who knows what percentage it is? If we are responsible for 30% of the warming, will reducing warming by 20% reduce the likelihood of catastrophic warming?