realclimate's description makes sense; volcanoes produce a relatively small amount of CO2 compared to human activities. yet we know that CO2 does have a strong greenhouse effect. if CO2 rose on it's own to initiate warming, natural warming cycles would be more abrupt as the system would be very sensitive to even small rises in CO2.
every time a volcano would erupt, a warming trend would be started.
If human activity is to blame for the current bout of global warming, then one would logically expect the current bout of global warming to have begun sometime during, oh, let's say the past couple of hundred years. Certainly no more than a few thousand.
But that's NOT what the evidence shows. The evidence shows that the current cycle of global warming began about 30,000 years ago. Other evidences include the land bridges between Ireland and Britain, Alaska and Siberia disappearing as the oceans began to rise -- presumably from the melting of the ice caps from the previous Ice Age. And long before human activity had any effect on global climate
this is a strawman; nobody is saying that people are the cause of warming out of the last ice age. people are saying that humans are responsible for the warming above and beyond what is caused by natural means.
in the last 800,000 years, the world has gone through a number of climate cycles where CO2 has peaked at about 300ppm and then turned and lowered along with temperature. today, we've surpassed that peak and instead have continued climbing to almost 400ppm, something unseen in almost a million years of fossil records.
hence the belief that humans are screwing up the system; people point out that in ancient times CO2 was at ridiculously high levels, however nobody can point to a natural phenomenon which would be responsible for the extra warming and CO2 we see today.
I don't imagine many Americans have $8k-$11k laying around and the current month's rates for energy in my neighborhood are 2.2 cents/kWh for the first 800 kWh and 1.2 cents/kWh after
i pay 20 cents per. that makes wind power pretty attractive. hell, that makes hooking a frickin generator up to a stationary bike attractive.
people want to connect with the games of their youth.
there's a bar in williamsburg brooklyn, barcade. full of old-ass consoles. place is always packed, and not because of the ubiquitous williamsburg indie rock jerkoff either. 30-somethings dump tons of quarters into those badboys. two reasons:
1) they still cost a quarter 2) they've got Robotron 2084 for hell's sake. robotron 2084!!. and time pilot.
So, what about listening to messages transmitted in China from a listening post in the US? Are you saying that we have to not listen? Or do they have the right to bomb us if we listen?
no, not at all. if it's in our airspace, we can listen to it. of course, that applies to our government, not our people. i can't listen in on an encrypted satellite TV signal that gets beamed in my backyard w/o getting in trouble.
International law (you know, the thing that applies to the US but no one else)
oh god, that's funny. yeah, that's why we invade countries with no evidence at all, completely ignore the geneva conventions, torture prisoners, etc. because international law totally applies to us. we've been bucking international law for years with no consequence.
first off, 2 years is not 'just in time'. in politics, 2 years is for fuckin ever.
second, the democratic party isn't 'in deep trouble'. they seem to be holding their own against the GOP in spite of a cohesive plan for most everything. i'd say the GOP is starting to slip down the slope into 'deep trouble' territory.
we're talking about diebold here, not any ATM. why bring up generic ATMs when the point is that diebold probably builds their ATMS far more secure than their voting machines?
Any physical security can be defeated by someone determined enough.
obviously, but that means nothing. we're talking about a generic minibar key here.
Citibank ATM fiasco "worst ever" [boingboing.net] ATM reprogrammed to give out 4 times more money [hamptonroads.com] Diebold ATMs hit by Nachi worm [interesting-people.org]
the first two aren't diebold machines, as far as i can tell. and the third has nothing to do with picking a lock.
unless you can show me that a diebold ATM can be easily picked as well, i have to go by the assumption that diebold's voting machines are deliberately lacking in physical security, if they indeed build ATMs which can't be easily picked. there really isn't any other good explanation for it.
because I'm convinced that the "good guys" (and we ARE them, by & large) cannot win against an insidious, merciless, and determined enemy by being Dudley Do-Right and playing with one hand tied behind their back.
so what you're saying is, the good guys can't win against this sort of enemy by continuing to be the good guys. what would we then become?
Where did all the money go to add to the levy system? Oh thats right, the money was spent on other items to beatify the city. Don't believe me, go research it.
uh...the new orleans govt' wasn't responsible for the levee system. the army corp of engineers was. of course, the corp of enginners watched as its funding for the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project was diverted to iraq.
from a 2/16/04 article in New Orleans CityBusiness:
The $750 million Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity Hurricane Protection project is another major Corps project, which remains about 20% incomplete due to lack of funds, said Al Naomi, project manager. That project consists of building up levees and protection for pumping stations on the east bank of the Mississippi River in Orleans, St. Bernard, St. Charles and Jefferson parishes.
The Lake Pontchartrain project is slated to receive $3.9 million in the president's 2005 budget. Naomi said about $20 million is needed.
"The longer we wait without funding, the more we sink," he said. "I've got at least six levee construction contracts that need to be done to raise the levee protection back to where it should be (because of settling). Right now I owe my contractors about $5 million. And we're going to have to pay them interest."
I always found it obscene that all the NPR leftist-types went wild over the taliban blowing up those 'graven' images on the mountainside (arts, antiquities and all). Yet they didn't see a great deal of harm to the women who were treated worse then the livestock. They never even said 'BOO' over the stoning of homosexuals and adulterers
actually, there was a pretty big movement on the left pre-911 intending to pressure the administration to punish the taliban over women's rights etc.
Top children's authors, including best-seller Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials), have written an open letter to the British Government claiming that consumer electronics have brought about the death of childhood.
It may be comprehension or memory that are at fault here, but in this case "they" refers to Al-Qaeda and the "tactics used against the Soviet Union" are those used during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan to effect a withdrawal.
madrid and britain were attacked likely to push said countries into withdrawing troops from iraq. the less aid that the US has in iraq, the more it costs and the quicker the US goes bankrupt, thanks to a hubristic leader who flat-out refuses to withdraw troops.
they're trying to use the same playbook they used against the soviets way back when.
"Much like Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, you have different attacks, blocking ability, and the need to discover your opponent's weaknesses and openings in their fighting patterns."
yeah, but Mike Tyson's Punch-Out had that rad extra level where you got to beat up Robin Givens.
actually, two kinds of battery are called a 'hybrid battery pack'.
but a fuel cell in a series system is indeed a hybrid design. just like the same system with a hydrogen-burning turbine generator in place of the fuel cell is also a hybrid system.
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We dont have one laptop per child here, not even close
because that would be socialism, apparently (which is way bad). strangely enough, spending $300 billion to fix iraq for iraqis is just peachy.
so i = 2 dead lawyers?
realclimate's description makes sense; volcanoes produce a relatively small amount of CO2 compared to human activities. yet we know that CO2 does have a strong greenhouse effect. if CO2 rose on it's own to initiate warming, natural warming cycles would be more abrupt as the system would be very sensitive to even small rises in CO2.
every time a volcano would erupt, a warming trend would be started.
If human activity is to blame for the current bout of global warming, then one would logically expect the current bout of global warming to have begun sometime during, oh, let's say the past couple of hundred years. Certainly no more than a few thousand.
But that's NOT what the evidence shows. The evidence shows that the current cycle of global warming began about 30,000 years ago. Other evidences include the land bridges between Ireland and Britain, Alaska and Siberia disappearing as the oceans began to rise -- presumably from the melting of the ice caps from the previous Ice Age. And long before human activity had any effect on global climate
this is a strawman; nobody is saying that people are the cause of warming out of the last ice age. people are saying that humans are responsible for the warming above and beyond what is caused by natural means.
in the last 800,000 years, the world has gone through a number of climate cycles where CO2 has peaked at about 300ppm and then turned and lowered along with temperature. today, we've surpassed that peak and instead have continued climbing to almost 400ppm, something unseen in almost a million years of fossil records.
hence the belief that humans are screwing up the system; people point out that in ancient times CO2 was at ridiculously high levels, however nobody can point to a natural phenomenon which would be responsible for the extra warming and CO2 we see today.
I don't imagine many Americans have $8k-$11k laying around and the current month's rates for energy in my neighborhood are 2.2 cents/kWh for the first 800 kWh and 1.2 cents/kWh after
i pay 20 cents per. that makes wind power pretty attractive. hell, that makes hooking a frickin generator up to a stationary bike attractive.
people want to connect with the games of their youth.
there's a bar in williamsburg brooklyn, barcade. full of old-ass consoles. place is always packed, and not because of the ubiquitous williamsburg indie rock jerkoff either. 30-somethings dump tons of quarters into those badboys. two reasons:
1) they still cost a quarter
2) they've got Robotron 2084 for hell's sake. robotron 2084!!. and time pilot.
ask the people of florida. the shuttle doesn't break any windows, far as i can recall.
So, what about listening to messages transmitted in China from a listening post in the US? Are you saying that we have to not listen? Or do they have the right to bomb us if we listen?
no, not at all. if it's in our airspace, we can listen to it. of course, that applies to our government, not our people. i can't listen in on an encrypted satellite TV signal that gets beamed in my backyard w/o getting in trouble.
International law (you know, the thing that applies to the US but no one else)
oh god, that's funny. yeah, that's why we invade countries with no evidence at all, completely ignore the geneva conventions, torture prisoners, etc. because international law totally applies to us. we've been bucking international law for years with no consequence.
first off, 2 years is not 'just in time'. in politics, 2 years is for fuckin ever.
second, the democratic party isn't 'in deep trouble'. they seem to be holding their own against the GOP in spite of a cohesive plan for most everything. i'd say the GOP is starting to slip down the slope into 'deep trouble' territory.
we're talking about diebold here, not any ATM. why bring up generic ATMs when the point is that diebold probably builds their ATMS far more secure than their voting machines?
Any physical security can be defeated by someone determined enough.
obviously, but that means nothing. we're talking about a generic minibar key here.
Citibank ATM fiasco "worst ever" [boingboing.net]
ATM reprogrammed to give out 4 times more money [hamptonroads.com]
Diebold ATMs hit by Nachi worm [interesting-people.org]
the first two aren't diebold machines, as far as i can tell. and the third has nothing to do with picking a lock.
unless you can show me that a diebold ATM can be easily picked as well, i have to go by the assumption that diebold's voting machines are deliberately lacking in physical security, if they indeed build ATMs which can't be easily picked. there really isn't any other good explanation for it.
Apparently not big enough at the time for a previous administration to do anything except have feel-good diplomatic talks
well, the previous administration gave us 'don't ask, don't tell' and DoMA.
well then, show us all the official declaration of war from the US congress (required by the constitution) and we'll talk.
because I'm convinced that the "good guys" (and we ARE them, by & large) cannot win against an insidious, merciless, and determined enemy by being Dudley Do-Right and playing with one hand tied behind their back.
so what you're saying is, the good guys can't win against this sort of enemy by continuing to be the good guys. what would we then become?
uh...the new orleans govt' wasn't responsible for the levee system. the army corp of engineers was. of course, the corp of enginners watched as its funding for the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project was diverted to iraq.
from a 2/16/04 article in New Orleans CityBusiness:
I always found it obscene that all the NPR leftist-types went wild over the taliban blowing up those 'graven' images on the mountainside (arts, antiquities and all). Yet they didn't see a great deal of harm to the women who were treated worse then the livestock. They never even said 'BOO' over the stoning of homosexuals and adulterers
actually, there was a pretty big movement on the left pre-911 intending to pressure the administration to punish the taliban over women's rights etc.
look up:
"For the second time in 3 years, Segway has announced a recall of all Segway Personal Transporters."
Top children's authors, including best-seller Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials), have written an open letter to the British Government claiming that consumer electronics have brought about the death of childhood.
what exactly does he expect the government to do?
It may be comprehension or memory that are at fault here, but in this case "they" refers to Al-Qaeda and the "tactics used against the Soviet Union" are those used during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan to effect a withdrawal.
(taps nose)
madrid and britain were attacked likely to push said countries into withdrawing troops from iraq. the less aid that the US has in iraq, the more it costs and the quicker the US goes bankrupt, thanks to a hubristic leader who flat-out refuses to withdraw troops.
they're trying to use the same playbook they used against the soviets way back when.
i feel like i'm stuck between a rock and a hard place in the sun!
"Much like Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, you have different attacks, blocking ability, and the need to discover your opponent's weaknesses and openings in their fighting patterns."
yeah, but Mike Tyson's Punch-Out had that rad extra level where you got to beat up Robin Givens.
actually, two kinds of battery are called a 'hybrid battery pack'.
but a fuel cell in a series system is indeed a hybrid design. just like the same system with a hydrogen-burning turbine generator in place of the fuel cell is also a hybrid system.
well, i dunno now...they aren't really clear about the location of the fuel cell.
it's still a hybrid. it's what's called a 'series hybrid'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_car#Series