The no explicit "right to privacy" crowd are the anti-Roe v. Wade crowd. They've done a very good job of inserting that meme into the public consciousness, and it has certainly helped them in the "war on terror".
Talk about most useless patent ever. As we move away from disposable bags this will be useless. Can I get a patent on storing if the customer uses cloth bags?
Yes. I'm well aware nature could at any point take us out. I also realize that it can swing wildly. All I'm saying is that we should do our best to keep it from swinging wildly. This currently being our only habitable planet and all.
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What part of time scale of humankind do you people have a problem with? I realize that the earth swings wildly over the geological record. If catastrophic climate change happens over the next 12,000 years humans might be able to adapt pretty easily. If it happens over the next 70 we might have a bigger problem. In the range of a human lifetime (give or take 70 years) the earth stays pretty balanced (up until recently).
"But the natural cycles were more or less balanced (at least on a human time scale)."
I'm not saying that the cycles won't tilt. I'm just saying that we'd be best to try to keep them balanced lest we end up like the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs had a good run and all, but it was a different planet then. For one, there weren't tons of dinosaurs compressed into liquid fuel being burned into the atmosphere.
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I didn't make the assumption that nature wouldn't. It's just that we can't do as much about nature. Burning fossil fuels we can.
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You do realize that there's a difference between the roles of natural cycles, and millions of people burning hydrocarbons right?
Perhaps I should explain. If I put a 100 pound weight on one side of scale and 100 pounds of gold on the other the scale should stay balanced right? I mean assuming this is scale is working like a scale should. Now suppose I put just one ounce of gold extra on the scale. It's just one ounce of gold right? Compared to the 100 pounds that's like a shaving. Shouldn't make much difference, but now the scale's off balance.
That's what's going on in the world. Sure all these natural cycles are inputs. And what we humans do may be dwarfed by the natural cycles. But the natural cycles were more or less balanced (at least on a human time scale). In the past hundred years or so we've added quite a bit of extra input to one side of the scale. What we've added is minuscule compared to the natural cycles, but remember this is a balance that we're monkeying with. And the stakes are high enough that we might want to err on the side of caution.
Guess they want to put themselves out of business through some sort of nationalized health care. You'd think the threat would make them more customer focused, but I guess they're far too long gone for that.
The number of people who can get their stomach stapled and become obese again makes me think there's little hope for a pill to fix the problem for everyone. It will just increase the number of calories one can eat.
Exactly and with the new research that lack of vitamin D seems to be related to increased incidence of cancer, getting outside to exercise in the early morning or late in the day looks like it may be better for you than running on a treadmill.
I guess I must live in an open source town. I can't remember a job posting in IT that didn't require a background in some sort of open source software. The only popular closed-source programming language is.NET, and even most of those projects seem to use things like nHibernate and nUnit.
You might try working through an OpenSocial plugin. It would be something that he and his peers would understand. It's fairly simple, broken up into bite-sized pieces, and it teaches the basics of asynchronous/event driven programming, javascript, and the DOM. While it's certainly not hard-core programming, I think it lives somewhat nicely in between useless toy programming and the real world.
Word of warning. I'd steer clear of the Facebook API. It has a flow that could really frustrate and turn off someone trying to do something simple.
Also your view of MySQL is a couple years old. MySQL has made leaps and bounds on Postgres. Now that mysql has things like PL/SQL and Foreign Keys the differences between it and postgres have dwindled.
Disclaimer: I have a strong Oracle, Postgres, and MySQL background. I find them all to be excellent tools.
They're still going to do the studies, and from what I'm seeing they're not planning on approving any of the leases until that study is done:
FTA: "The BLM in 2006 completed a similar study of the effects of wind farm development in the Midwest. The agency did not, however, halt applications during that process, which began in 2003. Resseguie said that was because wind resources were geographically dispersed and there were no multiple applications for any single location, as there are in California for solar plants."
So it sounds like they were just trying to close the queue so it wouldn't get clogged up while they waited on the results of the survey. It doesn't appear to in any way impact when they will start approving leases.
It wasn't too hard to find. Being on the main blm web page and all. To answer the question, the BLM does have quite an investment in selling leases for exploiting natural resources. Although, it doesn't explain why they wouldn't be interested in selling leases to exploit sunlight. Of course, we might find out that this was a directive from someone higher up in the administration.
That's the more ecological thing to do, too. Chances are the difference in fuel costs is not going to outweigh the fuel costs to build a new car for quite a while.
I'm not worried. I happen to know that in a crash with an SUV, the SUV is going to bounce and flip over. While my little car will probably be totaled, but with myself happy and safe inside. I've twice been smashed into by other vehicles totaling my small Toyotas (one of those was a Ford F-150 extended cab, one ended up hitting a concrete barrier). Both times the car was totaled and I walked away with no damage.
New is bad. Same story different tune. If you replace google with library (or librarian) in the summary it reads exactly the same. Since the printing press we've had places where skilled people could look up tons of information (and the unskilled could browse gossip mags).
No one is trying to exclude Perry from going to E3. They're simply point out that his endorsement of an extremist preacher make him a rather bizarre choice of E3 keynote speaker.
The article is quite bizarre though, since they could point out one of the many things that have made him incredibly unpopular in his home state (and led him to almost be defeated by a ridiculously underfunded Democrat in a red state). He's a completely incompetent governor who's best known in his state for trying to push through mandatory vaccines for his drug company friends, toll roads for his transportation friends, or vetoing bills he'd pledged to support only after the legislature had adjourned and could do nothing about it.
Which I suppose might make him a great E3 keynote speaker. Maybe they have a long history of incompetents.
What does this have to do with Democrats? Stop repeating the silly Democrats raise taxes, Republicans lower them memes. Even Bush raised some taxes while in office.
They're looking at this because the country is going into a recession and governments have not been getting the funds they need to continue running. Money is not as cheap to borrow so they're looking for new revenue streams.
Whether we get Republicans or Democrats in November we're going to see higher taxes. It's just simple economics.
"My kids were 95% for weight and received the same amount of vaccine as one in the 40%. Can this be an issue? Who knows."
The Centers for Disease Control. Please read up on what a vaccine is. "Dosage" should never be a problem unless your immune system is suppressed. And they don't give vaccines to premature babies until their immune systems rebound for this exact reason.
Just because you don't know the answer to the question doesn't mean that someone doesn't.
"Dude... you need to get outside the US once. It wouldn't, you know, kill you or anything."
You're right I should have said that outside first and second world countries the diseases are much more serious. Incidentally I was born in a third world country, was vaccinated and did not have any major childhood illnesses.
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The no explicit "right to privacy" crowd are the anti-Roe v. Wade crowd. They've done a very good job of inserting that meme into the public consciousness, and it has certainly helped them in the "war on terror".
Talk about most useless patent ever. As we move away from disposable bags this will be useless. Can I get a patent on storing if the customer uses cloth bags?
Yes. I'm well aware nature could at any point take us out. I also realize that it can swing wildly. All I'm saying is that we should do our best to keep it from swinging wildly. This currently being our only habitable planet and all.
What part of time scale of humankind do you people have a problem with? I realize that the earth swings wildly over the geological record. If catastrophic climate change happens over the next 12,000 years humans might be able to adapt pretty easily. If it happens over the next 70 we might have a bigger problem. In the range of a human lifetime (give or take 70 years) the earth stays pretty balanced (up until recently).
"But the natural cycles were more or less balanced (at least on a human time scale)."
I'm not saying that the cycles won't tilt. I'm just saying that we'd be best to try to keep them balanced lest we end up like the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs had a good run and all, but it was a different planet then. For one, there weren't tons of dinosaurs compressed into liquid fuel being burned into the atmosphere.
I didn't make the assumption that nature wouldn't. It's just that we can't do as much about nature. Burning fossil fuels we can.
You do realize that there's a difference between the roles of natural cycles, and millions of people burning hydrocarbons right?
Perhaps I should explain. If I put a 100 pound weight on one side of scale and 100 pounds of gold on the other the scale should stay balanced right? I mean assuming this is scale is working like a scale should. Now suppose I put just one ounce of gold extra on the scale. It's just one ounce of gold right? Compared to the 100 pounds that's like a shaving. Shouldn't make much difference, but now the scale's off balance.
That's what's going on in the world. Sure all these natural cycles are inputs. And what we humans do may be dwarfed by the natural cycles. But the natural cycles were more or less balanced (at least on a human time scale). In the past hundred years or so we've added quite a bit of extra input to one side of the scale. What we've added is minuscule compared to the natural cycles, but remember this is a balance that we're monkeying with. And the stakes are high enough that we might want to err on the side of caution.
Guess they want to put themselves out of business through some sort of nationalized health care. You'd think the threat would make them more customer focused, but I guess they're far too long gone for that.
The number of people who can get their stomach stapled and become obese again makes me think there's little hope for a pill to fix the problem for everyone. It will just increase the number of calories one can eat.
Exactly and with the new research that lack of vitamin D seems to be related to increased incidence of cancer, getting outside to exercise in the early morning or late in the day looks like it may be better for you than running on a treadmill.
I guess I must live in an open source town. I can't remember a job posting in IT that didn't require a background in some sort of open source software. The only popular closed-source programming language is .NET, and even most of those projects seem to use things like nHibernate and nUnit.
You might try working through an OpenSocial plugin. It would be something that he and his peers would understand. It's fairly simple, broken up into bite-sized pieces, and it teaches the basics of asynchronous/event driven programming, javascript, and the DOM. While it's certainly not hard-core programming, I think it lives somewhat nicely in between useless toy programming and the real world.
Word of warning. I'd steer clear of the Facebook API. It has a flow that could really frustrate and turn off someone trying to do something simple.
Or we could see a rebound propelled by technological innovation in green power and technologies.
But speaking from personal experience the oil companies are spending on IT. Now if they'd only spend on exploration or R&D.
Also your view of MySQL is a couple years old. MySQL has made leaps and bounds on Postgres. Now that mysql has things like PL/SQL and Foreign Keys the differences between it and postgres have dwindled.
Disclaimer: I have a strong Oracle, Postgres, and MySQL background. I find them all to be excellent tools.
They're still going to do the studies, and from what I'm seeing they're not planning on approving any of the leases until that study is done:
FTA:
"The BLM in 2006 completed a similar study of the effects of wind farm development in the Midwest. The agency did not, however, halt applications during that process, which began in 2003. Resseguie said that was because wind resources were geographically dispersed and there were no multiple applications for any single location, as there are in California for solar plants."
So it sounds like they were just trying to close the queue so it wouldn't get clogged up while they waited on the results of the survey. It doesn't appear to in any way impact when they will start approving leases.
From the BLM web page:
http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/energy/oil_and_gas.html
It wasn't too hard to find. Being on the main blm web page and all. To answer the question, the BLM does have quite an investment in selling leases for exploiting natural resources. Although, it doesn't explain why they wouldn't be interested in selling leases to exploit sunlight. Of course, we might find out that this was a directive from someone higher up in the administration.
That's the more ecological thing to do, too. Chances are the difference in fuel costs is not going to outweigh the fuel costs to build a new car for quite a while.
I'm not worried. I happen to know that in a crash with an SUV, the SUV is going to bounce and flip over. While my little car will probably be totaled, but with myself happy and safe inside. I've twice been smashed into by other vehicles totaling my small Toyotas (one of those was a Ford F-150 extended cab, one ended up hitting a concrete barrier). Both times the car was totaled and I walked away with no damage.
New is bad. Same story different tune. If you replace google with library (or librarian) in the summary it reads exactly the same. Since the printing press we've had places where skilled people could look up tons of information (and the unskilled could browse gossip mags).
They were slightly older tech in 1983. But that only makes it more likely a teenager would have one.
No one is trying to exclude Perry from going to E3. They're simply point out that his endorsement of an extremist preacher make him a rather bizarre choice of E3 keynote speaker.
The article is quite bizarre though, since they could point out one of the many things that have made him incredibly unpopular in his home state (and led him to almost be defeated by a ridiculously underfunded Democrat in a red state). He's a completely incompetent governor who's best known in his state for trying to push through mandatory vaccines for his drug company friends, toll roads for his transportation friends, or vetoing bills he'd pledged to support only after the legislature had adjourned and could do nothing about it.
Which I suppose might make him a great E3 keynote speaker. Maybe they have a long history of incompetents.
What does this have to do with Democrats? Stop repeating the silly Democrats raise taxes, Republicans lower them memes. Even Bush raised some taxes while in office.
They're looking at this because the country is going into a recession and governments have not been getting the funds they need to continue running. Money is not as cheap to borrow so they're looking for new revenue streams.
Whether we get Republicans or Democrats in November we're going to see higher taxes. It's just simple economics.
I believe this was the lead developer. Not a sysadmin.
"My kids were 95% for weight and received the same amount of vaccine as one in the 40%. Can this be an issue? Who knows."
The Centers for Disease Control. Please read up on what a vaccine is. "Dosage" should never be a problem unless your immune system is suppressed. And they don't give vaccines to premature babies until their immune systems rebound for this exact reason.
Just because you don't know the answer to the question doesn't mean that someone doesn't.
"Dude ... you need to get outside the US once. It wouldn't, you know, kill you or anything."
You're right I should have said that outside first and second world countries the diseases are much more serious. Incidentally I was born in a third world country, was vaccinated and did not have any major childhood illnesses.