So, here's a question: if Cosmic Rays *are* found to be able to seed clouds, and, presumably, more cloud cover means less warming, couldn't we build a giant gamma ray beam and shoot it up into the sky?
[Answering my own question: not with current technology. From here, "Cosmic rays can have energies of over 10^20 eV, far higher than the 10^12 to 10^13 eV that Terrestrial particle accelerators can produce."]
Well, Evangelical is uses as shorthand for the specific sect these days. Just read any mainstream newspaper article about the religious views of Michele Bachmann or Rick Perry. I will concede that it's likely that this usage isn't as common outside the US.
Except that, and this may be surprising to some, not all teachers have drunken pictures and "inappropriate for a child's eyes" content on their Facebook account.
Very well said. I'd like to amend my original comment to state instead that teachers should be trained to be mindful of what's on their Facebook accounts and what they're giving their "friends" access to.
I do have a question (I haven't used Facebook seriously in about four years): when you friend someone these days, do they get access to (1) pictures others post of you, and (2) things people post to your wall? Are either of these things you can control? Because my concern then is that while the teachers themselves may be smart enough to not post their own embarrassing photos to their accounts, they might have idiot friends who will tag them in photos or who will post things on their wall such as "Dude, you were so WASTED last night!"
So I think this law is going a little overboard, but a lot of new teachers (who are in their early-to-mid twenties) don't realize that, by friending their students, they're giving their students access to all those embarrassing drunken pictures taken of them while they're in college--I've heard stories from my mother, a teacher, who is on Facebook (unfortunately) but who doesn't accept friend requests from students, but who works with many younger teachers who do. IMO, teachers should be trained that it's a good idea not to friend your students, maybe to the extent that it's the policy of a school system to not allow teachers and students to be Facebook friends. But I agree that this is a case of the government sticking its nose somewhere it doesn't belong.
"When the Destroyers came for us, we attacked. Never had we been defeated. They were like the others: strange, hideous, resisting, fighting. Only these were not like the others. They did not die. We made our first retreat. We could forego one system. We left it to the Destroyers and went elsewhere. But they followed. They hunted us. They followed us when we retreated, discovered where we lived. For a long time we did not know why they chased us. These were no ordinary enemy. They did not seek our territory, our technology, our resources. Now we know our crime was sin."
The article didn't say HOW WELL it "beat the market" (that is, what percentage return), nor does it say how it did on a day-to-day basis. So I'm treating "beat the market in its first month" as a single data point.
Actually, I have. And while it's nice to be able to watch Youtube, listen to Google Music and read Slashdot on the train, I'd frankly rather have the peace and quiet. One shouldn't be SO ADDICTED to technology that one cannot go an hour twice a day without it.
Do people REALLY need to be on their cell phones on the subway, anyway?
One of the things I like best about the DC Metro is the incredibly spotty cell phone reception. You have NO IDEA how gratifying it is when someone who's been loudly talking on their cell phone for the past three above-ground stations FINALLY gets off as we go underground.
No one wants to hear your music on the train, which is why radios and boom boxes are banned. Equally, no one wants to hear you struggle to be heard on your cell phone over the roar of the train.
Engineers are saying their products are being rushed to market, and that they're not being given enough time to come out with a perfect product?
What's the world coming to?
Next thing you'll be seeing teachers complain about being underpaid and under-appreciated and the president saying that partisan bickering is preventing him from getting anything accomplished.
Has anyone here ever read Heinlein's Starship Troopers (no comment about the movie)? There's a scene where they discuss a human colony on this planet that's exactly like earth, only with far less ionizing radiation. The discussion goes that in a few thousand years, the humans that settle on that world will be evolutionarily impaired due to lack of mutations.
That is, unless they purposefully irradiate themselves.
9/11 killed the concorde, not the crash. Specifically, the heightened security meant that the super-rich who could afford a ticket decided to take private jets instead.
Wow, way to miss the point. I agree that Chinatown DC has nothing to do with China, but my point was that I wouldn't associate the area that includes Verizon Center and pretty much all the most highly rated restaurants in DC with low mortality and poverty.
In DC, life expectancy drops by two years for every stop you take along the red line, IIRC. There is a lot of poverty.
Is this a joke? Because for anyone actually familiar with the DC area, this makes no sense. The red line actually serves some of the most affluent areas of the DMV. At one end, you have Rockville and Bethesda. In the middle, you have ultra-wealthy Dupont Circle, trendy Chinatown and Union Station. As you head out of the city in the other direction, yes, you have some less affluent neighborhoods, but East Montgomery County is hardly slums, and the only people who think so are people from Bethesda.
I still have and use an iMac G4 (as a file server and to run iTunes, mostly). You know, the one that looks like the pixar lamps. Best iMac design EVER, in my opinion. I will continue using it until the day something fries in it that I can't replace.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on whether or not you have to pilot a spaceship)
Doesn't the shuttle basically pilot itself at this point? Then again, I suppose you have a whole different sort of issues if your autopilot starts drinking...
I just bought one brand new about two weeks ago.
Don't have any laptops that support Wireless-N, it works really well with dd-wrt, and it was on sale.
The way the article is talking about them makes them sound like they're ancient and outdated tech.
Do you know how easy it is to create a filter to de-prioritize emails in Gmail? Gmail filters are the easiest things in the world to use. I don't know why ANYONE would complain about this when they can correct it in about three clicks.
As long as my ISP notifies me that I'm getting close to my "complaint limit" before I actually hit it, I don't really see a problem. I'd rather this than be indicted in a lawsuit.
And, given the option, I'd sit through that "'copyright awareness' program" any day. It's bound to be amusing.
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http://xkcd.com/538/
So, here's a question: if Cosmic Rays *are* found to be able to seed clouds, and, presumably, more cloud cover means less warming, couldn't we build a giant gamma ray beam and shoot it up into the sky?
[Answering my own question: not with current technology. From here, "Cosmic rays can have energies of over 10^20 eV, far higher than the 10^12 to 10^13 eV that Terrestrial particle accelerators can produce."]
Well, Evangelical is uses as shorthand for the specific sect these days. Just read any mainstream newspaper article about the religious views of Michele Bachmann or Rick Perry. I will concede that it's likely that this usage isn't as common outside the US.
Except that, and this may be surprising to some, not all teachers have drunken pictures and "inappropriate for a child's eyes" content on their Facebook account.
Very well said. I'd like to amend my original comment to state instead that teachers should be trained to be mindful of what's on their Facebook accounts and what they're giving their "friends" access to.
I do have a question (I haven't used Facebook seriously in about four years): when you friend someone these days, do they get access to (1) pictures others post of you, and (2) things people post to your wall? Are either of these things you can control? Because my concern then is that while the teachers themselves may be smart enough to not post their own embarrassing photos to their accounts, they might have idiot friends who will tag them in photos or who will post things on their wall such as "Dude, you were so WASTED last night!"
So I think this law is going a little overboard, but a lot of new teachers (who are in their early-to-mid twenties) don't realize that, by friending their students, they're giving their students access to all those embarrassing drunken pictures taken of them while they're in college--I've heard stories from my mother, a teacher, who is on Facebook (unfortunately) but who doesn't accept friend requests from students, but who works with many younger teachers who do. IMO, teachers should be trained that it's a good idea not to friend your students, maybe to the extent that it's the policy of a school system to not allow teachers and students to be Facebook friends. But I agree that this is a case of the government sticking its nose somewhere it doesn't belong.
Me: Hey, Slashdot says 90% of people don't know what Ctrl-F does. That sounds pretty low to me.
My wife (who's in IT): Ctrl-what?
Me: Ctrl-F. You know, for searching on a page.
WIfe: Oh, yeah. Well, why would you ever use Ctrl-F when you can just hit F3?
Me: F3?
(hits F3)
Me: Oh.
"When the Destroyers came for us, we attacked. Never had we been defeated. They were like the others: strange, hideous, resisting, fighting. Only these were not like the others. They did not die. We made our first retreat. We could forego one system. We left it to the Destroyers and went elsewhere. But they followed. They hunted us. They followed us when we retreated, discovered where we lived. For a long time we did not know why they chased us. These were no ordinary enemy. They did not seek our territory, our technology, our resources. Now we know our crime was sin."
I've played this video game. I think we sort of win.
The article didn't say HOW WELL it "beat the market" (that is, what percentage return), nor does it say how it did on a day-to-day basis. So I'm treating "beat the market in its first month" as a single data point.
We'll see how it does next month, and the month after that, and the month after that...
I do remember reading that, according to some interpretations, Trial by Combat *may indeed* be legal under the US legal system...
Actually, I have. And while it's nice to be able to watch Youtube, listen to Google Music and read Slashdot on the train, I'd frankly rather have the peace and quiet. One shouldn't be SO ADDICTED to technology that one cannot go an hour twice a day without it.
Do people REALLY need to be on their cell phones on the subway, anyway?
One of the things I like best about the DC Metro is the incredibly spotty cell phone reception. You have NO IDEA how gratifying it is when someone who's been loudly talking on their cell phone for the past three above-ground stations FINALLY gets off as we go underground.
No one wants to hear your music on the train, which is why radios and boom boxes are banned. Equally, no one wants to hear you struggle to be heard on your cell phone over the roar of the train.
Engineers are saying their products are being rushed to market, and that they're not being given enough time to come out with a perfect product?
What's the world coming to?
Next thing you'll be seeing teachers complain about being underpaid and under-appreciated and the president saying that partisan bickering is preventing him from getting anything accomplished.
Just because it's true doesn't make it news.
Has anyone here ever read Heinlein's Starship Troopers (no comment about the movie)? There's a scene where they discuss a human colony on this planet that's exactly like earth, only with far less ionizing radiation. The discussion goes that in a few thousand years, the humans that settle on that world will be evolutionarily impaired due to lack of mutations.
That is, unless they purposefully irradiate themselves.
9/11 killed the concorde, not the crash. Specifically, the heightened security meant that the super-rich who could afford a ticket decided to take private jets instead.
The Wiki seems to indicate that this issue has been debated now for generations. I don't think we're going to settle it today.
I love that the only reason he got busted is because he asked if it was okay...
Seems like he should have either:
(a) Asked BEFORE acquiring the material or
(b) Not asked at all
Sure. Get out on the wrong stop on the Green line, though, and your life expectancy drops to zero.
I've never been on the Green Line south of L'Enfant, but my wife grew up down there, and she concurs.
Wow, way to miss the point. I agree that Chinatown DC has nothing to do with China, but my point was that I wouldn't associate the area that includes Verizon Center and pretty much all the most highly rated restaurants in DC with low mortality and poverty.
In DC, life expectancy drops by two years for every stop you take along the red line, IIRC. There is a lot of poverty.
Is this a joke? Because for anyone actually familiar with the DC area, this makes no sense. The red line actually serves some of the most affluent areas of the DMV. At one end, you have Rockville and Bethesda. In the middle, you have ultra-wealthy Dupont Circle, trendy Chinatown and Union Station. As you head out of the city in the other direction, yes, you have some less affluent neighborhoods, but East Montgomery County is hardly slums, and the only people who think so are people from Bethesda.
I still have and use an iMac G4 (as a file server and to run iTunes, mostly). You know, the one that looks like the pixar lamps. Best iMac design EVER, in my opinion. I will continue using it until the day something fries in it that I can't replace.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on whether or not you have to pilot a spaceship)
Doesn't the shuttle basically pilot itself at this point? Then again, I suppose you have a whole different sort of issues if your autopilot starts drinking...
I just bought one brand new about two weeks ago. Don't have any laptops that support Wireless-N, it works really well with dd-wrt, and it was on sale. The way the article is talking about them makes them sound like they're ancient and outdated tech.
Do you know how easy it is to create a filter to de-prioritize emails in Gmail? Gmail filters are the easiest things in the world to use. I don't know why ANYONE would complain about this when they can correct it in about three clicks.
As long as my ISP notifies me that I'm getting close to my "complaint limit" before I actually hit it, I don't really see a problem. I'd rather this than be indicted in a lawsuit. And, given the option, I'd sit through that "'copyright awareness' program" any day. It's bound to be amusing.
Never mind. Question answered in a different part of the thread.