You laugh, but an Ice Age *is* coming. It follows the great melt.
I didn't laugh, but history has taught me not to discuss matters of nuclear power and/or climate change on Slashdot with any level of seriousness.
People like yourself, that are prepared to discuss the matters based on knowledge and logic rather than emotional attachment to a specific theory or method of energy production are too few and far between. Hence a Clash lyric seemed as suitable as anything to post.
How does that even work? One would cancel out the other. If the sun were "zooming in" it would get hotter and dryer
I have spent much of my youth contemplating that, and found no good answer.
Some people say the original line was "The ice age is coming, the sun's at it's end"
Others say that they are unrelated or sort of like reading contradicting headlines in the press about how the world is going to end.
Maybe the Ice Age is ending. Or it could be all those cows passing gas.
No no, you are all wrong.
The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Engines stop running, the wheat is growing thin
A nuclear error but I have no fearM
'Cause London is drowning and I,
I live by the river
It is pretty condescending of you to suggest they have been "blindly trusting" anyone up until now.
And I am somewhat unclear on how the fact that a company forced its employees to lie and put them at risk is going to make them distrustful of the government?
As someone who lives in Japan, I can truly say that at least up till 3/11 the Japanese majority was exactly blindly trusting the government. And the few that did not trust the government,did not care. This is all changing now. Well there are still many that don't care, but at least there are a good percentage of people really starting to questioning the system, ready to take the red pill and unplug.
I'm pretty sure as greenhouse effect gas, methane is quite a bit stronger than carbon dioxide...
Parent is right.
According to wikipedia (because I am feeling a bit lazy,there are plenty of other sources out there).
For example, on a molecule-for-molecule basis the direct radiative effects of methane is about 72 times stronger than carbon dioxide over a 20 year time frame[13] but it is present in much smaller concentrations so that its total direct radiative effect is smaller, and it has a shorter atmospheric lifetime
The interesting thing is that after the shorter atmospheric lifetime that they are talking about here. Methane breaks down into CO2 (!) and Water.
Which means that Methane is actually a double whammy for global warming.
I realize that this loss is in no way indicative of MS's demise.
But it still had me thinking about what will happen the day that there is nothing left to do for MS except patent litigation. That won't be pretty.
Right, isn't a lot of this stuff done by figuring out how nature does it and then artificially replicating that process? Like gene therapy via retrovirus, for instance.
You may have a point there, but then the method or process might be patentable not the gene it self.
Well I wouldn't be too sure, your UID matches the number of Slashdot accounts I've registered and forgotten about rather well.
Settle by neck beard measurement?:D
Geez, I figured we were all past the <sarcasm> tag already.
</sarcasm>
Ah, there, that's better... If you don't close your sarcasm tags, my sarcasm parser will get messed up and my whole day gets very confusing.
I wonder who really initiated the suit. Not likely the kids: what do they know about money, at that age
The lawsuit was initiated by the children's grand mother (Nina Reisers mother) who is their legal guardian and with whom the children now live in Russia.
I don't pretend to know anything about her motives, but I don't see anything wrong with a grand mother trying to secure her grandchildren's future. Especially after all they have been through.
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I was this close ( > ) to start mocking the submitter about misspelling Thermite. Luckily, for once I did read TFS.
You laugh, but an Ice Age *is* coming. It follows the great melt.
I didn't laugh, but history has taught me not to discuss matters of nuclear power and/or climate change on Slashdot with any level of seriousness. People like yourself, that are prepared to discuss the matters based on knowledge and logic rather than emotional attachment to a specific theory or method of energy production are too few and far between. Hence a Clash lyric seemed as suitable as anything to post.
How does that even work? One would cancel out the other. If the sun were "zooming in" it would get hotter and dryer
I have spent much of my youth contemplating that, and found no good answer. Some people say the original line was "The ice age is coming, the sun's at it's end" Others say that they are unrelated or sort of like reading contradicting headlines in the press about how the world is going to end.
Maybe the Ice Age is ending. Or it could be all those cows passing gas.
No no, you are all wrong.
The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Engines stop running, the wheat is growing thin
A nuclear error but I have no fearM
'Cause London is drowning and I,
I live by the river
Does this mean, we will be able to charge our laptops from our phones??? :D
That is just silly talk, my implementation will require at least 1.21 gigawatts
if only slashdot had a joke plagiarism filter.
Why did the Anonymous Coward cross the road?
I misread the title as "Neurosurgery may cure videogame industry obsession with guns".
Now I must admit to being slightly disappointed.
Taco's wife needs to stop having kids.
Why? I thought the scripture said that the geek shall inherit the earth?
It is pretty condescending of you to suggest they have been "blindly trusting" anyone up until now.
And I am somewhat unclear on how the fact that a company forced its employees to lie and put them at risk is going to make them distrustful of the government?
As someone who lives in Japan, I can truly say that at least up till 3/11 the Japanese majority was exactly blindly trusting the government. And the few that did not trust the government,did not care. This is all changing now. Well there are still many that don't care, but at least there are a good percentage of people really starting to questioning the system, ready to take the red pill and unplug.
I wonder how they taste fried........
Tastes like Venice beach boobs.
Is that some kind of linguist porn movie?
Oh no I just realized that I could have done so much better on this one.
"Grammar does Matter",
is obviously a sex-ed movie for linguist - physicist couples.
"Grammar does Matter"
Is that some kind of linguist porn movie?
I'm pretty sure as greenhouse effect gas, methane is quite a bit stronger than carbon dioxide...
Parent is right.
According to wikipedia (because I am feeling a bit lazy,there are plenty of other sources out there).
For example, on a molecule-for-molecule basis the direct radiative effects of methane is about 72 times stronger than carbon dioxide over a 20 year time frame[13] but it is present in much smaller concentrations so that its total direct radiative effect is smaller, and it has a shorter atmospheric lifetime
The interesting thing is that after the shorter atmospheric lifetime that they are talking about here. Methane breaks down into CO2 (!) and Water. Which means that Methane is actually a double whammy for global warming.
Posting to undo clutz finger mod
I realize that this loss is in no way indicative of MS's demise.
But it still had me thinking about what will happen the day that there is nothing left to do for MS except patent litigation. That won't be pretty.
Right, isn't a lot of this stuff done by figuring out how nature does it and then artificially replicating that process? Like gene therapy via retrovirus, for instance.
You may have a point there, but then the method or process might be patentable not the gene it self.
Guess you ain't as old as me
Well I wouldn't be too sure, your UID matches the number of Slashdot accounts I've registered and forgotten about rather well. :D
Settle by neck beard measurement?
Guess I ain't as tired as you
No argument there, son.
3D porn!? That sounds great!
Sounds great, until you go to Soviet, Russia, where the 3D porn watches you!
(Sorry for perpetrating an old tired meme, but I am old and tired)
Geez, I figured we were all past the <sarcasm> tag already.
</sarcasm>
Ah, there, that's better...
If you don't close your sarcasm tags, my sarcasm parser will get messed up and my whole day gets very confusing.
Earliest Americans Arrived In Waves, DNA Study Finds
I think it would be safe to say that the Earliest Americans, arrived in the first wave. Yes?
Funny guy, I hold you personally responsible. Now get your ass over here and wipe the coffee of my monitor.
try 'man clusterfsck' for more info.
error: man page not found.
Did you mean glusterfsck?
I wonder who really initiated the suit. Not likely the kids: what do they know about money, at that age
The lawsuit was initiated by the children's grand mother (Nina Reisers mother) who is their legal guardian and with whom the children now live in Russia.
I don't pretend to know anything about her motives, but I don't see anything wrong with a grand mother trying to secure her grandchildren's future. Especially after all they have been through.
It's essentially ALL the options and customization you didn't realize you needed, but once you've got it, you'll never go back to vanilla.
But will my camera work?