But at the same time, we all recognize that certain fundamental rights should not be left to the States. (See discrimination, slavery, disabilities, etc.. )
The question is whether proper education should be deemed a fundamental right.
And like pollution, an entire state of uneducated idiots is going to be detrimental outside of that State's boundaries. They will be a drain on federal taxes.
The annoying thing about creating snow in an area that isn't below freezing to begin with, is that it ends up being wet dense snow. A totally different skiing/snowboarding experience than dry fluffy snow.
I guess in the end it is no different than tennis matches: sometimes they play on clay courts, sometimes on artificial flooring, etc..
The problem is the EPA doesn’t have the data, which was compiled by Harvard University researchers more than two decades ago, and confidentiality agreements with hundreds of thousands of participants prevent researchers from making it public. The nominee, Gina McCarthy, had nothing to do with the research.
Of course they can game the system - name one repeatable climatology experiment. It can't be done, like astronomy climatology is an observational science, you can't throw a bunch of alternate Earth's into the lab to experiment on. Requiring that only experimental (reproducible) science be used as the basis for policy means we have to ignore most of what we know about the natural world.
Well.. we can't clone the Earth, that is true.
But there are a bunch of climate related reproducible experiments. For instance,
Measuring the heat trapping power of CO2 in controlled jars/tanks Determining the acidity tolerance of coral reefs in tanks Mimicking ocean currents and changing temperature and salinity in big tanks to watch how currents change shape or stop flowing. etc...
Many of the predictions made by climate scientists are based on small experiments like this, and the results are incorporated into climate models.
I'm going to trust this conclusion: the EPA doesn't have the data. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-16/two-decade-old-harvard-data-confounds-u-s-epa-nomination.html
Much more than I'm willing to trust http://junkscience.com/about-steve-milloy/ , who wrote a book titled:
"Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them"
The majority of the Republicans in the House do not believe in evolution, do not believe that man is changing the climate, believe that the earth is 4000 years old, etc...(I don't know how many of them are just faking these beliefs for elections, but it is kinda irrelevant).
Why wouldn't the sane default position be to distrust any Republican bill concerning science?
Sure, there are many areas where Repubs and Dems are the same.
While not evil, given that the majority of the Repubs in the House deny many well understood scientific theories and conclusions, we can at least label one side as willfully ignorant.
Democrats, on average, seem way less likely to ignore experts.
You can get the olympics over the air with an antenna in the US.
What I don't get is why NBC doesn't seem to want to maximize the number of eyes viewing the ads. A live online stream is just bringing more viewers to their ads.
I'm starting to think that half of slashdot is paid shills for the petrol industries. Every time any article comes up about renewables, electric cars... basically any forward progress, half the posts are along the lines of "it will NEVER happen".
Portland OR. We rarely get snow, so no one has chains, snow tires, or 4wd. When the snow does some, it is often icy. And the city is really hilly. The result is basically a shutdown even if we get one inch of snow.
However, our city government and businesses seem to be much more attentive to weather services, and we usually get notice that "everything" is closed early in the morning before we head in to work.
There was literally *nothing* many of us could have done from that angle.
Well, except own tire chains.
The same thing happens in Portland OR. We get snow very, very rarely. And it is often very icy when it does come down, and our city is really hilly. It is so rare that very few people have snow tires, 4wd, or chains. So when it does hit the hit, even an inch, the entire place shuts down.
If people were required to own chains or have winter tires installed from Nov-Feb, the city wouldn't have to shutdown.
At a minimum, people's lives are being upended due to no fault of their own and it's quite clear where they should direct their energy.
Toward getting better skills, better jobs, or finding more affordable places to live if the first two don't work out?
Some people do have a sense of community, and like the town they live in, have family there, friends, etc... You can't expect Grandma to go back to school for her engineering degree with you, just in order to stay in the condo she's lived in for the last 30 years:)
The entire notion that your community can be dissolved because of the whims of the market is not good for society. That said, I don't see any easy fix. But on a human level, you must understand how hard this is on long time communities.
If you do switch to web programming then obviously you need to know: html, javascript, SQL. Those are the most basic and key things you need to understand.
It is highly variable right now. Many web shops have a front end designer who handles html/css and some javascript, then sometimes a middleware person who does php/java/asp, and lastly a c/java/database person who might provide stored procedures for the middleware guy to query.
Smaller shops, you may end up doing all of that yourself.
The numbers can be a bit misleading though. I bet there are 100's of millions of tiny/hobby php sites and wordpress installs. So while java/jsp/beans are only 2.7% of total web sites, they are probably huge sites. Ditto with ASP/VB.net and coldfusion, as only places with money to spend use those platforms.
I use php, java, and coldfusion at work. Personally I enjoy coldfusion when I just want to get things done quickly.
But depending on what sort of job you end up with, you may have to make something in PHP talk to something written in JAVA and output to a page written in Coldfusion:) So learning web-oriented data formats is helpful (json, xml/xslt, etc.).
There will come a time when these glasses don't look like recording devices. What then?
I know at this point in time, right now with this level of tech, what he did was stupid. But it is cases like his that are going to help redefine laws, expectations, etc.. for the future. Every time new tech comes out society has to adjust.
I see people using glass as just the early adopters, forcing society (movie owners, restaurant owners, etc..) to work out all the scenarios, redefine laws if needed, etc..
There will be a point in the future where recording tech is everywhere. It will be tiny, undetectable, network connected, etc.. Laws, behaviors, and expectations, will just need to get up to speed with the tech.
As pointed out above, what if the recording device was actual contact lenses needed to see the movie? The google glasses were actually prescription glasses. They just had the unfortunate side effect of being very noticeable.
I wish people would not cede that point. The cost is wildly variable depending on the time frame and methods involved to change.
For a 50 year time frame and using market forces, with the government providing incentives, the cost would not be felt by the average consumer at all. http://www.ted.com/talks/amory_lovins_a_50_year_plan_for_energy.html
Unfortunately, scientists have to present explanations that people without advanced degrees have to understand.
Why?
It seems that is more the job of the science reporter, or other knowledge specialist or political consultant. Unfortunately, known of those groups of people are actually doing their jobs well... so maybe it is the job of scientists to get more political.
But it really isn't even a choice. Everyone always has a choice of one type of internet connection. You have one choice of cable, one choices of dsl, and one choice of wireless (sometimes).
For the most part, cable and dsl do not compete on internet service. A consumer is usually going the cable or dsl route because of other package considerations having to do with phone or tv. Internet is typically a secondary thought for most average consumers.
How is it that only 1 provider of one type of internet connection (1 dsl, 1 cable, etc..) typically exists in most US cities? There isn't one business willing to attempt to compete with comcast or charter in a major city using cable?
It seems like something sure is preventing secondary providers. I don't exactly know what though.
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But at the same time, we all recognize that certain fundamental rights should not be left to the States. (See discrimination, slavery, disabilities, etc.. )
The question is whether proper education should be deemed a fundamental right.
And like pollution, an entire state of uneducated idiots is going to be detrimental outside of that State's boundaries. They will be a drain on federal taxes.
The annoying thing about creating snow in an area that isn't below freezing to begin with, is that it ends up being wet dense snow. A totally different skiing/snowboarding experience than dry fluffy snow.
I guess in the end it is no different than tennis matches: sometimes they play on clay courts, sometimes on artificial flooring, etc..
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-16/two-decade-old-harvard-data-confounds-u-s-epa-nomination.html
The problem is the EPA doesn’t have the data, which was compiled by Harvard University researchers more than two decades ago, and confidentiality agreements with hundreds of thousands of participants prevent researchers from making it public. The nominee, Gina McCarthy, had nothing to do with the research.
Of course they can game the system - name one repeatable climatology experiment. It can't be done, like astronomy climatology is an observational science, you can't throw a bunch of alternate Earth's into the lab to experiment on. Requiring that only experimental (reproducible) science be used as the basis for policy means we have to ignore most of what we know about the natural world.
Well.. we can't clone the Earth, that is true.
But there are a bunch of climate related reproducible experiments. For instance,
Measuring the heat trapping power of CO2 in controlled jars/tanks
Determining the acidity tolerance of coral reefs in tanks
Mimicking ocean currents and changing temperature and salinity in big tanks to watch how currents change shape or stop flowing.
etc...
Many of the predictions made by climate scientists are based on small experiments like this, and the results are incorporated into climate models.
I'm going to trust this conclusion: the EPA doesn't have the data. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-16/two-decade-old-harvard-data-confounds-u-s-epa-nomination.html
Much more than I'm willing to trust http://junkscience.com/about-steve-milloy/ , who wrote a book titled:
"Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them"
The majority of the Republicans in the House do not believe in evolution, do not believe that man is changing the climate, believe that the earth is 4000 years old, etc...(I don't know how many of them are just faking these beliefs for elections, but it is kinda irrelevant).
Why wouldn't the sane default position be to distrust any Republican bill concerning science?
Sure, there are many areas where Repubs and Dems are the same.
While not evil, given that the majority of the Repubs in the House deny many well understood scientific theories and conclusions, we can at least label one side as willfully ignorant.
Democrats, on average, seem way less likely to ignore experts.
You can get the olympics over the air with an antenna in the US.
What I don't get is why NBC doesn't seem to want to maximize the number of eyes viewing the ads. A live online stream is just bringing more viewers to their ads.
I'm starting to think that half of slashdot is paid shills for the petrol industries. Every time any article comes up about renewables, electric cars... basically any forward progress, half the posts are along the lines of "it will NEVER happen".
Jason
And I have the exact opposite experience. Maybe your community is very tax averse and isn't funding their local government properly?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCoxOReXlHI
Portland OR. We rarely get snow, so no one has chains, snow tires, or 4wd. When the snow does some, it is often icy. And the city is really hilly. The result is basically a shutdown even if we get one inch of snow.
However, our city government and businesses seem to be much more attentive to weather services, and we usually get notice that "everything" is closed early in the morning before we head in to work.
There was literally *nothing* many of us could have done from that angle.
Well, except own tire chains.
The same thing happens in Portland OR. We get snow very, very rarely. And it is often very icy when it does come down, and our city is really hilly. It is so rare that very few people have snow tires, 4wd, or chains. So when it does hit the hit, even an inch, the entire place shuts down.
If people were required to own chains or have winter tires installed from Nov-Feb, the city wouldn't have to shutdown.
There is evidence of ritualistic burial.
Never?
At a minimum, people's lives are being upended due to no fault of their own and it's quite clear where they should direct their energy.
Toward getting better skills, better jobs, or finding more affordable places to live if the first two don't work out?
Some people do have a sense of community, and like the town they live in, have family there, friends, etc... You can't expect Grandma to go back to school for her engineering degree with you, just in order to stay in the condo she's lived in for the last 30 years:)
The entire notion that your community can be dissolved because of the whims of the market is not good for society. That said, I don't see any easy fix. But on a human level, you must understand how hard this is on long time communities.
If you do switch to web programming then obviously you need to know: html, javascript, SQL. Those are the most basic and key things you need to understand.
It is highly variable right now. Many web shops have a front end designer who handles html/css and some javascript, then sometimes a middleware person who does php/java/asp, and lastly a c/java/database person who might provide stored procedures for the middleware guy to query.
Smaller shops, you may end up doing all of that yourself.
http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language/all
PHP 81.7%
ASP.NET 18.0%
Java 2.7%
ColdFusion 0.8%
The numbers can be a bit misleading though. I bet there are 100's of millions of tiny/hobby php sites and wordpress installs. So while java/jsp/beans are only 2.7% of total web sites, they are probably huge sites. Ditto with ASP/VB.net and coldfusion, as only places with money to spend use those platforms.
I use php, java, and coldfusion at work. Personally I enjoy coldfusion when I just want to get things done quickly.
But depending on what sort of job you end up with, you may have to make something in PHP talk to something written in JAVA and output to a page written in Coldfusion:) So learning web-oriented data formats is helpful (json, xml/xslt, etc.).
There will come a time when these glasses don't look like recording devices. What then?
I know at this point in time, right now with this level of tech, what he did was stupid. But it is cases like his that are going to help redefine laws, expectations, etc.. for the future. Every time new tech comes out society has to adjust.
I see people using glass as just the early adopters, forcing society (movie owners, restaurant owners, etc..) to work out all the scenarios, redefine laws if needed, etc..
There will be a point in the future where recording tech is everywhere. It will be tiny, undetectable, network connected, etc.. Laws, behaviors, and expectations, will just need to get up to speed with the tech.
As pointed out above, what if the recording device was actual contact lenses needed to see the movie? The google glasses were actually prescription glasses. They just had the unfortunate side effect of being very noticeable.
ecause Copyright is now policed under ICE, which is owned by DHS, which means the feds are the ones who investigate this.
I seem to recall FBI warnings on all the movies I'd rent way before ICE came into existence. I was curious how long it has been around:
The Motion Picture Association of America began using an FBI enforcement message on films while J. Edgar Hoover was director of the FBI.
source: ast couple paragraphs http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/fbi-anti-piracy-warnings-over-time-pictures-322495
The cost to "stop" is massive
I wish people would not cede that point. The cost is wildly variable depending on the time frame and methods involved to change.
For a 50 year time frame and using market forces, with the government providing incentives, the cost would not be felt by the average consumer at all. http://www.ted.com/talks/amory_lovins_a_50_year_plan_for_energy.html
But at least the ones that accept it have the good sense to defer to experts.
I prefer to fly in airplanes designed by field biologists.
Unfortunately, scientists have to present explanations that people without advanced degrees have to understand.
Why?
It seems that is more the job of the science reporter, or other knowledge specialist or political consultant. Unfortunately, known of those groups of people are actually doing their jobs well... so maybe it is the job of scientists to get more political.
But it really isn't even a choice. Everyone always has a choice of one type of internet connection. You have one choice of cable, one choices of dsl, and one choice of wireless (sometimes).
For the most part, cable and dsl do not compete on internet service. A consumer is usually going the cable or dsl route because of other package considerations having to do with phone or tv. Internet is typically a secondary thought for most average consumers.
Internet needs to be a city run utility.
How is it that only 1 provider of one type of internet connection (1 dsl, 1 cable, etc..) typically exists in most US cities?
There isn't one business willing to attempt to compete with comcast or charter in a major city using cable?
It seems like something sure is preventing secondary providers. I don't exactly know what though.