I think you are reading much to closely. He doesn't mean that they were converting CO2, he means that two large impacts that cyanobacteria had were to consume CO2 and release nitrogen.
I guess somebody that thought at the speed of concrete might make the mistake that you corrected, but I don't think the other poster did.
I have not used it, I just assumed it existed because of the planet software that is written in Python, but Planet Php appears to contain at least pieces of what you want:
I'm sympathetic to preferring privacy (the EU seems to have a pretty good solution to many of the issues surrounding privacy and personal information), but all the stuff you are talking about is pretty much "it makes it easier for people to be shitheads". Personally, I prefer ignoring or otherwise dealing with the shitheads to sounding alarms about what might happen in a world where they have more influence than they should (because dealing with the shitheads who care about what you searched for is the eventual solution in any case).
The only difference between your list and people who use Blackberrys is the home/work searches in the first item (sort of, I guess teh Google would have more direct access to email and PIM stuff with Android).
I don't have any problem with you raising the question, but you aren't doing a very good job of explaining why you are raising the question (personally, I don't really care if Google knows that I send a lot of inane email, drink fairly often and don't call all that many people; it would be offensive if someone in Google tried to use that information against me, but they wouldn't get anywhere).
Increased transparency would make it easier, but I'm not sure it would make it easy enough. There are people who chew through a lot of the crap that Congress spews forth and try to turn it into the clear information that you are talking about, and they don't seem to get all that much attention.
That's a lot of XKCD, even if you only accidentally looked at part of one letter on a cover of some edition of the New Yorker. Maybe somebody sent you a single pixel from a comic that ran in the New Yorker?
A lot more transparency would be a fine thing, but the problem is that most people don't care, not that blatantly corrupt legislation is being added to unrelated bills.
It isn't apparent that anybody is actually trying to smuggle dangerous gels or fluids onto airplanes (surely the notion behind the ban is safety). Suicidal terrorists could disrupt air travel simply by regularly opening emergency exits, so I'm not sure that '100%' safe is a useful goal. In that context, it doesn't make any sense to me to focus a great deal of security effort on something that might be a threat, maybe, they aren't sure, but they sure are going to cover their asses (imagine the recriminations if they failed to prevent an attack that someone had already thought of).
The deal with the saline is not that it is a loophole, it is that toothpaste isn't a whole lot more dangerous. Nor are mouthwash, shampoo, bottled water, grape soda (don't get it in your eyes!), etc.
A couple of gallons of gasoline would present serious issues on a plane, but wouldn't crash it. 10 ounces would be about enough for a terrist to burn themselves pretty good (or maybe a couple of other passengers), but it wouldn't be that big a deal.
Sure. Less oil more better. My goal was to refute this statement: "With oil, we are getting the bulk of it from people who hate us and want to use the money they make from us, to build an army up and come over here and kill us."
You are overestimating the consequences. If you have a loan that you can't afford, then you are suffering from some combination of not paying attention and being mislead by whoever sold you the mortgage. Where you are overestimating things is that the housing market was not overheated in much of the country, and even in the overheated areas, not everybody cashed in (so they are left with a nice house to live in, with a reasonable mortgage, instead of a ridiculous house and mortgage, or an obscene home equity loan).
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Cost.
If it made economic sense, power companies would be paying you (er..heavy users) to install batteries.
I think you are reading much to closely. He doesn't mean that they were converting CO2, he means that two large impacts that cyanobacteria had were to consume CO2 and release nitrogen.
I guess somebody that thought at the speed of concrete might make the mistake that you corrected, but I don't think the other poster did.
It is entirely plausible that a civilization could be a billion years ahead of us.
I have not used it, I just assumed it existed because of the planet software that is written in Python, but Planet Php appears to contain at least pieces of what you want:
http://www.planet-php.net/
http://svn.bitflux.ch/repos/public/planet-php/trunk/
(It does want a database though)
I'm sympathetic to preferring privacy (the EU seems to have a pretty good solution to many of the issues surrounding privacy and personal information), but all the stuff you are talking about is pretty much "it makes it easier for people to be shitheads". Personally, I prefer ignoring or otherwise dealing with the shitheads to sounding alarms about what might happen in a world where they have more influence than they should (because dealing with the shitheads who care about what you searched for is the eventual solution in any case).
Why is it so frightening?
The only difference between your list and people who use Blackberrys is the home/work searches in the first item (sort of, I guess teh Google would have more direct access to email and PIM stuff with Android).
I don't have any problem with you raising the question, but you aren't doing a very good job of explaining why you are raising the question (personally, I don't really care if Google knows that I send a lot of inane email, drink fairly often and don't call all that many people; it would be offensive if someone in Google tried to use that information against me, but they wouldn't get anywhere).
It was self referential. Giving deep consideration to the aesthetics of human nipples is also pretty superficial.
I have time on my legs and feet, and a little on the small of my back.
It itches.
Increased transparency would make it easier, but I'm not sure it would make it easy enough. There are people who chew through a lot of the crap that Congress spews forth and try to turn it into the clear information that you are talking about, and they don't seem to get all that much attention.
Careful what you call thinking.
I made sure to put something in about never telling anyone.
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Much in the same way, a young Natalie Portman first gained notoriety on /.
Ack!
Thbbbt!
Bury a turd somewhere. Never tell anyone. The memory will always be yours alone.
Giving deep consideration to the aesthetics of cow nipples is not the ideal number.
That said, I would never even talk to someone if I knew they had a third nipple.
There were two drawings showing the internet as envisioned by the elderly.
That's a lot of XKCD, even if you only accidentally looked at part of one letter on a cover of some edition of the New Yorker. Maybe somebody sent you a single pixel from a comic that ran in the New Yorker?
I would say that Robin Williams is spontaneously odd, but I wouldn't say he is funny.
A lot more transparency would be a fine thing, but the problem is that most people don't care, not that blatantly corrupt legislation is being added to unrelated bills.
Thanks for the correction.
It isn't apparent that anybody is actually trying to smuggle dangerous gels or fluids onto airplanes (surely the notion behind the ban is safety). Suicidal terrorists could disrupt air travel simply by regularly opening emergency exits, so I'm not sure that '100%' safe is a useful goal. In that context, it doesn't make any sense to me to focus a great deal of security effort on something that might be a threat, maybe, they aren't sure, but they sure are going to cover their asses (imagine the recriminations if they failed to prevent an attack that someone had already thought of).
The deal with the saline is not that it is a loophole, it is that toothpaste isn't a whole lot more dangerous. Nor are mouthwash, shampoo, bottled water, grape soda (don't get it in your eyes!), etc.
A couple of gallons of gasoline would present serious issues on a plane, but wouldn't crash it. 10 ounces would be about enough for a terrist to burn themselves pretty good (or maybe a couple of other passengers), but it wouldn't be that big a deal.
Sure. Less oil more better. My goal was to refute this statement: "With oil, we are getting the bulk of it from people who hate us and want to use the money they make from us, to build an army up and come over here and kill us."
You are overestimating the consequences. If you have a loan that you can't afford, then you are suffering from some combination of not paying attention and being mislead by whoever sold you the mortgage. Where you are overestimating things is that the housing market was not overheated in much of the country, and even in the overheated areas, not everybody cashed in (so they are left with a nice house to live in, with a reasonable mortgage, instead of a ridiculous house and mortgage, or an obscene home equity loan).