"That graph doesn't mean anything. Have a look at some global ones"
Perhaps if this were an isolated case, this graph would mean very little, but there are many cities in the US experiencing long term temperature declines.
"Early days yet; the target date is 2010. You might notice that those countries are at least cutting emissions (unlike the US)"
The EU isn't gonna make it to Kyoto compliance. They're not on track, and unless there's some major economic/political disturbance, they're not going to get on track.
"Citation please. The US is actually quite bad at this."
The original article had one, but here is another:
That's not to say that we can't do more to reduce carbon emissions, but with temperatures falling in some places, there is still some wiggle room vis-a-vis global warming and human causation:
But, given that many in the international community want more action from the United States on this issue, and in general there is distaste everywhere for dumping tons of waste into the atmosphere, there is some room for hope, including the North Eastern United States pact on emissions:
In general, there is a self righteous feeling amongst non-Americans (especially from pro Kyoto treaty Europeans), but keep in mind please that very few European nations are even meeting their Kyoto targets:
Kyoto is a 'first step', but many nations supporting that first step aren't actually taking it, making it "a tale, Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." [Macbeth Act 5, Scene 5]
The real key is reducing our economic carbon intensity (generating more money with fewer carbon emissions). We in the United States are already doing that quite well.
Can we move faster? Yes. And we will, if by hook and crook, including regional emissions limitations, higher international oil prices, and a general shift in our economy away from manufacturing and oil consumption.
But arrogant attitudes about 'excuses and misinformation' miss the real point.
It works in the dark, on the go, and when you want it.
FreePlay in particular has manufactured and sold WindUp Radios and Flashlights in Africa for some time now.
Free Play WindUp Radios and Flashlights
http://windupradio.com/windup.htm
Sidewinder Portable Cell Phone Charger:
http://www.thetravelinsider.info/roadwarriorconten t/sidewinder.htm
For portable MP-3 players, I guess that you just have to bring extra batteries. They can last quite a long time, depending on your brand.
Have them bring in their laptops, give them all games knoppix, and start by playing networked Scorched Earth 3D. (You'll probably need a wired network in the conference room).
Hey if they don't like it, at least they can all say that they used Linux, and they can play a game while they ignore your explaination of why free software is so cool.
So, how many KGs of Hydrogen does a Hydrogen powered car need per mile? Multiply x7.05kg to get emissions based on current production technologies.
Are these hydrogen cars poisoning the planet?
With a 500 km (310 miles) range, a gas powered car at the target level could sequester and store about 70 kgs (154 pounds) of CO2.
If gas stations were required to accept and sequester this CO2, we could effectively eliminate CO2 emissions from most new automobiles without criss crossing the world with Hydrogen delivery lines or developing a totally new CO2 free hydrogen creation system.
Just capture 50% of CO2 emissions and you'll be doing quite fine as far as cutting emissions goes.
I did the math, and by the time my 3 year old son enters school, 20% of the salary and benefits paid out by the school will go to the retirement benefits of employees who are long gone and will never teach him a thing.
Since most kids will not finish school for 9 years (average 0-18) or more, making those cuts now can improve their education dramatically, even after increasing salaries by 5% as a bonus to cover the shortfall.
More money buys better education. Spend today's money on today's kids, and stop taking from toddlers.
Does this mean the MS Office 12 implements the XForms standard, or that it embraces and extends it in a proprietary way? If so, what's the advantage for users of MS Office 12 over XForms?
OK, how did these guys get $10M? If I go to their web site, they're not selling anything. How are they paying the bills? Are they in startup mode prepping to be the next RedHat? Are they burning through VC funding?
For more than 50 years sane voices have called for an end to the debate. Nature versus nurture has been declared everything from dead and finished to futile and wrong - a false dichotomy. Everybody with an ounce of common sense knows that human beings are a product of a transaction between the two.
The LA Times, NY Times, and Washington Post all conducted their own independent counts and found that GWB was the winner.
OK pal, that's true under most conditions depending on how you count the votes that were cast and valid.
What about the votes that didn't even make it to the recount? The African Americans who gave up after waiting 4 hours in line? The votes summarilly tossed without notification in poor (again mostly African American) communities?
Don't believe me. Believe former President and Jimmy Carter, who said, in the summer of 2004, that:
some basic international requirements for a fair election are missing in Florida.
No, it's:
Whoever makes the rules gets the gold.
Notice that Microsoft is paying (*) politicians and not vice versa?
(*) As in, donating money to the campaigns of said politicians.
Both have Market caps at about $18B. If Google were to make a strategic investment of $5-9B in either or both, they could run the internal IT as well as insert Google things in cars. Employee e-mail, calendar, document management, and search by Google, Google maps and yellow pages in the cars, etc.
With CAFTA and FTAs between
US and Australia, and other Free Trade agreements in effect or in progress, including Andean FTA, Australia FTA,
Bahrain FTA,
Chile FTA,
Israel FTA,
Jordan FTA,
Morocco FTA,
Panama FTA,
Singapore FTA, and SACU FTA, you can bet that
we'll see more of the same with our major trading partners.
I get DVDs back from Netflix in about 48 hours. The US Postal Service gets my videos to Netflix in 24, they ship the same day, and I get them back the next day. It doesn't happen all of the time, but it's pretty impressive when I'm about 100 miles from my local Netflix processing center.
I wonder how quickly Blockbuster returns videos for what percentage of the population as compared to Netflix?
Here's my concern. Say Micronesia passes an identical and reciprocal law, and it honors extradition treaties with the United States.
Say further that some college kid uploads a copy of "Colossus: The Forbin Project" (1970) to the peer to peer networks tomorrow.
But wait! That movie (1970) was never released in Micronesia. (Lets say most movies are never officially released there)
Pretty soon the kid has some FBI agent threatening to extradite him to some third world country where he'll likely die in jail unless he signs such and such paper and pays such and such damages.
This was not the intent of the lawmakers, but the law could be abused as such.
I'd like to have a credit card that will only allow a single charge based on something that program into it.
For example, it has a module on which I've stored my thumbprint (the module will only verify my print. It won't give out the data). I strobe it and a unique credit card number appears which is only good for that transaction.
Or perhaps I can write my own custom module which requires me to tap out a randomly generated five character sequence that it displays in Morris code accurately in less than 10 seconds - with a lockdown mode if I fail.
Or perhaps it uses my voice and my spouse's voice.
I would just like a smart module on which I can run my own software that makes a "go" / "no go" decision to generate a mechanism to allow one and only one credit card charge.
And, American Express, if you're listening, I'm willing to pay for it.
For about $70.00, a student can assemble a
YAAARC JanBot, which is a small mobile robot with touch sensors and simple vision sensors (for line following), from raw components (breadboard, wires, PIC, motors, and sensors) without any power tools (soldering irons). (OK, you may end up using a glue gun for one or two parts).
We did this as a group, and high school students actively participated.
Also, one of our members is developing a mobile robotics kit using the AVR Butterfly, which has a similar components cost, but has an LCD and LED screen. (See our web site).
Sorry, but I'm an avid audiophile, and just because all lossless audio codecs generate digital output streams identical to their digital input streams does not mean that they sound the same! We must verify that those bits still sound the same via our one way gold plated speaker cables!
"That's correct, I think. But it's not the same assertion made in the four-colour theorem, which is that you can always color the map using no more than four colours."
OK, but it seems like I can make this proof a proof of the four color theorem by altering it:
Imagine there is a map that needs 5 colors. Say those colors are red, green, white, blue, and yellow. If those aren't the right colors, then map it's current colors one for one into the colors given.
Say you have that map under this can of coffee right here....now proceed with rest of "proof"....
OK, so since no map that needs 5 colors can possibly exist, then 4 colors must always be sufficient to color any map.
This is in regular human talk. It's not a true proof.
Imagine that you have a map that has five colors where every color is touching every other color.
It's on a piece of paper beneath a coffee can.
One color must be on the edge. There may be only one color, or there may be many, but at least one will exist.
Move the coffee can until you see that color. Lets say red.
Now imagine taking a marker and covering the rest of the page in red. (Alternatively, stretching the red area around the rest of the page).
Now you have four colors who are all touching one another, and who are all touching the outer red page.
Imagine that you have a tetrahedron. This is a 3D shape which has four sides. Imagine that each side of the tetrahedron has a color. Say, green, white, blue, and yellow.
Imagine that you poke a hole in the tetrahedron and spread it out flat - placing it on the red piece of paper.
No matter where you poke the hole, all four sides will touch one another.
However, you must poke a hole so that all four colors are on the border, i.e. so that they all touch the red paper.
Look a the green side. All of the sides are equivalent.
If you poke a hole in one of the corners, the opposite side will be in the center when you lay it down, and it won't touch the red. It won't work.
If you poke a hole on one of the edges, it's even worse. Two of the opposite sides will be in the center, and neither will touch the red. Again, it won't work.
Worst of all, if you poke a hole directly in the center of the green side. Then all three other sides will be in the center when you lay down the tetrahedron and none of them will touch the red. That won't work either.
Therefore, there's no way to poke a hole such that all four sides will touch the red when the tetrahedron is laid down, so it was impossible to have a map with 5 colors, all of which were touching one another, in the first place.
Came up with this in 1990. Never formalized it mathematically. It may not be a proof, but it makes logical sense to me.
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Perhaps if this were an isolated case, this graph would mean very little, but there are many cities in the US experiencing long term temperature declines.
"Early days yet; the target date is 2010. You might notice that those countries are at least cutting emissions (unlike the US)"
Not Spain:
http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/emis/spa.htm
Not the UK:
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/uk_c
And not the EU as a whole:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4115670
The EU isn't gonna make it to Kyoto compliance. They're not on track, and unless there's some major economic/political disturbance, they're not going to get on track.
"Citation please. The US is actually quite bad at this."
The original article had one, but here is another:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/1605/gg02rpt/gas.html
Carbon intensity has been dropping 14.52% per decade 1950-2000 in the US, even with cheap gas during much of that time.
"There is not an iota of evidence that reducing carbon emissions would lead to a depression."
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See late 1970s stag-flation in the United States.
Wikipedia will help you understand:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagflation
Oil, like food and land, is a critical component of today's economy.
It's less critical than it was (as measured by carbon intensity), but it's still important.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/1605/ggrpt/trends.htm
That's not to say that we can't do more to reduce carbon emissions, but with temperatures falling in some places, there is still some wiggle room vis-a-vis global warming and human causation:
http://michiganimc.org/usermedia/image/2/large/Cl
But, given that many in the international community want more action from the United States on this issue, and in general there is distaste everywhere for dumping tons of waste into the atmosphere, there is some room for hope, including the North Eastern United States pact on emissions:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/25/nyregion/25air.
As well as a similar plan for the Pacific costal states of California, Oregon, and Washington also in the works.
http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=11
In general, there is a self righteous feeling amongst non-Americans (especially from pro Kyoto treaty Europeans), but keep in mind please that very few European nations are even meeting their Kyoto targets:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,1
Those nations that are meeting the targets are in deep recessions (including Russia):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3702640.stm
Kyoto is a 'first step', but many nations supporting that first step aren't actually taking it, making it "a tale, Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." [Macbeth Act 5, Scene 5]
The real key is reducing our economic carbon intensity (generating more money with fewer carbon emissions). We in the United States are already doing that quite well.
Can we move faster? Yes. And we will, if by hook and crook, including regional emissions limitations, higher international oil prices, and a general shift in our economy away from manufacturing and oil consumption.
But arrogant attitudes about 'excuses and misinformation' miss the real point.
It works in the dark, on the go, and when you want it. FreePlay in particular has manufactured and sold WindUp Radios and Flashlights in Africa for some time now. Free Play WindUp Radios and Flashlights http://windupradio.com/windup.htm Sidewinder Portable Cell Phone Charger: http://www.thetravelinsider.info/roadwarriorconten t/sidewinder.htm
For portable MP-3 players, I guess that you just have to bring extra batteries. They can last quite a long time, depending on your brand.
"India raked in more than $2 billion of an estimated $3 billion global ... market."
"the worldwide offshore BPO market will grow to about $24 billion by 2007 of which India will earn about $13.8 billion."
So with massive market growth India might slip below 50% market share if they don't watch their back.
But it's not like they're stocking up on pink slips in Bangalore.
Bibles last longer than Ikea catalogs.
Have them bring in their laptops, give them all games knoppix, and start by playing networked Scorched Earth 3D. (You'll probably need a wired network in the conference room). Hey if they don't like it, at least they can all say that they used Linux, and they can play a game while they ignore your explaination of why free software is so cool.
This process produces "7.05 kg CO2 ... per [1.0] kilogram hydrogen".
Now new cars are getting near 140.9 [grams] C02 [per kilometer] (This is a target, double it if you want)
So, how many KGs of Hydrogen does a Hydrogen powered car need per mile? Multiply x7.05kg to get emissions based on current production technologies.
Are these hydrogen cars poisoning the planet? With a 500 km (310 miles) range, a gas powered car at the target level could sequester and store about 70 kgs (154 pounds) of CO2.
If gas stations were required to accept and sequester this CO2, we could effectively eliminate CO2 emissions from most new automobiles without criss crossing the world with Hydrogen delivery lines or developing a totally new CO2 free hydrogen creation system.
Just capture 50% of CO2 emissions and you'll be doing quite fine as far as cutting emissions goes.
I did the math, and by the time my 3 year old son enters school, 20% of the salary and benefits paid out by the school will go to the retirement benefits of employees who are long gone and will never teach him a thing.
Since most kids will not finish school for 9 years (average 0-18) or more, making those cuts now can improve their education dramatically, even after increasing salaries by 5% as a bonus to cover the shortfall.
More money buys better education. Spend today's money on today's kids, and stop taking from toddlers.
Does this mean the MS Office 12 implements the XForms standard, or that it embraces and extends it in a proprietary way? If so, what's the advantage for users of MS Office 12 over XForms?
Just curious.
OK pal, that's true under most conditions depending on how you count the votes that were cast and valid.
What about the votes that didn't even make it to the recount? The African Americans who gave up after waiting 4 hours in line? The votes summarilly tossed without notification in poor (again mostly African American) communities?
Don't believe me. Believe former President and Jimmy Carter, who said, in the summer of 2004, that:
some basic international requirements for a fair election are missing in Florida.
Read it in The Washington Post .
I don't care so much if a Democrat or a Republican wins, but we must get the election right.
No, it's: Whoever makes the rules gets the gold. Notice that Microsoft is paying (*) politicians and not vice versa? (*) As in, donating money to the campaigns of said politicians.
Sounds like a great game! Too bad it's no longer available: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/5647#summary PS: This game wouldn't be allowed within 50 feet of my old High School.
Both have Market caps at about $18B. If Google were to make a strategic investment of $5-9B in either or both, they could run the internal IT as well as insert Google things in cars. Employee e-mail, calendar, document management, and search by Google, Google maps and yellow pages in the cars, etc.
With CAFTA and FTAs between US and Australia, and other Free Trade agreements in effect or in progress, including Andean FTA, Australia FTA, Bahrain FTA, Chile FTA, Israel FTA, Jordan FTA, Morocco FTA, Panama FTA, Singapore FTA, and SACU FTA, you can bet that we'll see more of the same with our major trading partners.
I wonder how quickly Blockbuster returns videos for what percentage of the population as compared to Netflix?
Here's my concern. Say Micronesia passes an identical and reciprocal law, and it honors extradition treaties with the United States. Say further that some college kid uploads a copy of "Colossus: The Forbin Project" (1970) to the peer to peer networks tomorrow. But wait! That movie (1970) was never released in Micronesia. (Lets say most movies are never officially released there) Pretty soon the kid has some FBI agent threatening to extradite him to some third world country where he'll likely die in jail unless he signs such and such paper and pays such and such damages. This was not the intent of the lawmakers, but the law could be abused as such.
"They patented THAT?!?! I've been doing that in this product for YEARS!"
For example, it has a module on which I've stored my thumbprint (the module will only verify my print. It won't give out the data). I strobe it and a unique credit card number appears which is only good for that transaction.
Or perhaps I can write my own custom module which requires me to tap out a randomly generated five character sequence that it displays in Morris code accurately in less than 10 seconds - with a lockdown mode if I fail.
Or perhaps it uses my voice and my spouse's voice.
I would just like a smart module on which I can run my own software that makes a "go" / "no go" decision to generate a mechanism to allow one and only one credit card charge.
And, American Express, if you're listening, I'm willing to pay for it.
For about $70.00, a student can assemble a YAAARC JanBot, which is a small mobile robot with touch sensors and simple vision sensors (for line following), from raw components (breadboard, wires, PIC, motors, and sensors) without any power tools (soldering irons). (OK, you may end up using a glue gun for one or two parts).
We did this as a group, and high school students actively participated.
Also, one of our members is developing a mobile robotics kit using the AVR Butterfly, which has a similar components cost, but has an LCD and LED screen. (See our web site).
Sorry, but I'm an avid audiophile, and just because all lossless audio codecs generate digital output streams identical to their digital input streams does not mean that they sound the same! We must verify that those bits still sound the same via our one way gold plated speaker cables!
You forgot:
Z. Community member uses experience to anticipate posts - delegitimizing community members' opinions and concerns.
"That's correct, I think. But it's not the same assertion made in the four-colour theorem, which is that you can always color the map using no more than four colours." OK, but it seems like I can make this proof a proof of the four color theorem by altering it: Imagine there is a map that needs 5 colors. Say those colors are red, green, white, blue, and yellow. If those aren't the right colors, then map it's current colors one for one into the colors given. Say you have that map under this can of coffee right here ....now proceed with rest of "proof" ....
OK, so since no map that needs 5 colors can possibly exist, then 4 colors must always be sufficient to color any map.
This is in regular human talk. It's not a true proof.
Imagine that you have a map that has five colors where every color is touching every other color.
It's on a piece of paper beneath a coffee can.
One color must be on the edge. There may be only one color, or there may be many, but at least one will exist.
Move the coffee can until you see that color. Lets say red.
Now imagine taking a marker and covering the rest of the page in red. (Alternatively, stretching the red area around the rest of the page).
Now you have four colors who are all touching one another, and who are all touching the outer red page.
Imagine that you have a tetrahedron. This is a 3D shape which has four sides. Imagine that each side of the tetrahedron has a color. Say, green, white, blue, and yellow.
Imagine that you poke a hole in the tetrahedron and spread it out flat - placing it on the red piece of paper.
No matter where you poke the hole, all four sides will touch one another.
However, you must poke a hole so that all four colors are on the border, i.e. so that they all touch the red paper.
Look a the green side. All of the sides are equivalent.
If you poke a hole in one of the corners, the opposite side will be in the center when you lay it down, and it won't touch the red. It won't work.
If you poke a hole on one of the edges, it's even worse. Two of the opposite sides will be in the center, and neither will touch the red. Again, it won't work.
Worst of all, if you poke a hole directly in the center of the green side. Then all three other sides will be in the center when you lay down the tetrahedron and none of them will touch the red. That won't work either.
Therefore, there's no way to poke a hole such that all four sides will touch the red when the tetrahedron is laid down, so it was impossible to have a map with 5 colors, all of which were touching one another, in the first place.
Came up with this in 1990. Never formalized it mathematically. It may not be a proof, but it makes logical sense to me.
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