The whole website 350.org was created what now... 6 years ago? Because Bill McKibben said that 350 ppm CO2 was a "safe upper limit" for CO2 in the atmosphere in 2007.
The IP-Cry-Wolf organization has to create a "new" upper limit. It's just more bullshit. They have no idea what any "safe upper limit" for CO2 is, they guess and publicize scary numbers every 5 years in order to secure future funding.
Those instructions are worthless in all but the rarest of circumstances. I guarantee you your lap-belt + crash position or flotation device isn't going to save you when the ground is coming up and your ground speed is in excess of formula-1 racers. At that point it's just random chance that saves you. The Hudson river "landing" was remarkable simply because its one of the most rare forms of plane crash, the controlled crash where everyone managed to survive.
Besides which, once you've flown 10-20 times, those instructions are obvious and easy to remember.
If that's the fear, then all consumer electronics should be banned from flying, just like guns. The random malfunction of consumer electronics potentially interacting with the comm/nav systems on a commercial jetliner has to be 5-10 orders of magnitude more rare than someone building a portable high-power RF white noise source and leaving it on during takeoff.
Maybe the problem is that unused sick time can be rolled into vacation time.
This is actually the problem. My company doesn't work this way anymore. Sick time is allowed to be taken as needed and does not accumulate. However if you go above X hours a year of sick time you get a stern lecture from your level X boss, if you go above Y hours, Y+X boss, etc... It doesn't get abused often I don't think, at least I haven't seen it.
It sucked. Infection that just wouldn't die and moved all over the place, sinuses, throat, lungs, nodes, etc... I'd stay home a day and think I was getting better, and it would just move somewhere else. Stupid flu.
By this logic, a free-speech/freedom-of-information loving U.S. Government should be telling the world what weapons it has, and where it keeps all it's good weapons.
If Americans were still fat, but used all electric cars instead of public transportation, would you still hate them so much? Oh wait, I shouldn't ask, you'll probably just find another reason to hate them.
As an American, I'd have to say 'yes'. They'd still be clogging up the roads, demanding newer and larger freeways, complaining about the lack of parking, using more power, and be lazier and fatter, than if they didn't mind building and using some decent public transit.
So:
1) An automobile infrastructure that hasn't been seriously upgraded in 40 years isn't worth complaining about?
2) A parking infrastructure that hasn't been upgraded isn't worth complaining about?
Public transportation is just another way to get around, it's not some magical "best" method of transportation.
Did you vote for anyone who made it illegal to refuse medical service based on income? If so, you helped contribute to this disaster.
Not that I think it's all hunky dory that your income is sized up before you get treated, but legally forcing the medical establishment to treat everyone can ONLY force everyone to pay for people who are less responsible for their health.
Dear god, why not leave your naked prejudice inside before it leaves your hands? I promise I might take you a little more seriously if you can stop hating people just because of their lifestyle.
If Americans were still fat, but used all electric cars instead of public transportation, would you still hate them so much? Oh wait, I shouldn't ask, you'll probably just find another reason to hate them.
I think most celebrities do have a open-use policy on their nether regions, but retain the rights to body-mod to themselves. To be precise, I think they're more like 10-day trial shareware.
To be pedantic, actually nuclear radiation comes in three types: gamma, alpha, and beta radiation. Only gamma radiation is EM, the others are particle decays.
Particles are waves, and waves are particles.
I could represent your body and soul with a wave, but my noise floor is too high and my frequency resolution too coarse.
The sickness is called "Ego", it's incurable, and they all have it. Worse still, they have invented an infection path via reality television which they use to spread this epidemic of narcissism to the rest of the planet
..to 2 billion people when you consider India + China. That means automobile transportation is quickly becoming NORMAL in those areas. That means HORRENDOUS smog problems for the next 4-6 decades in those areas.
In short, this isn't news, it was expected when you consider how much of the world is still developing quickly.
Chance of measurable exposure to loose radioactive isotopes in the environment after 2 major nuclear accidents in the world: >0.000001%
Chance of ionizing some of your cellular chemistry from high-school-education-level TSA employees using an X-ray source to see your body before you get on a plane: 100%
Over a hundred people die from firearms every day in America.
Nearly a hundred people die from automobile accidents in America every day. Do you want to ban the privately owned sportscar because they're built to be driven dangerously?
Freedom is never the problem, but the individual responsibility applied to protecting the freedom of all is. The person who violently murders innocents is sick. Those people don't appear in a vacuum, they manifest over time and interaction with others in our society. When you tease someone you consider a loser instead of getting to know them, you're contributing to the problem. When you bully those you consider beneath you, you're contributing to the problem. When you ignore people who are clearly suffering from a mental problem, you're contributing to the problem. When you entirely neglect and ignore your fellow free man your fellow citizen who may be hurting, you are expecting your freedom to be free. That is a fatal mistake.
Armed communities are often polite communities, but polite communities reduce the need for arms.
"oops, sorry, we didn't mean to legislate teaching you what wasn't known for certain yet."
By the problem of induction, nothing in science in certain. Should we teach nothing? We should teach proper, accepted science (facts that have scientific consesus)--evolution is such a fact.
In any case, they aren't forcing science down people's throats, it is for public education.
False dichotomy. I never suggested science not be taught. I simply said that politicians should not be deciding which science will and will not be taught.
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The whole website 350.org was created what now... 6 years ago? Because Bill McKibben said that 350 ppm CO2 was a "safe upper limit" for CO2 in the atmosphere in 2007.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/350.org
http://350.org/
Since we are now well past 350ppm CO2 in the atmosphere: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/
The IP-Cry-Wolf organization has to create a "new" upper limit. It's just more bullshit. They have no idea what any "safe upper limit" for CO2 is, they guess and publicize scary numbers every 5 years in order to secure future funding.
It will get out of control and we'll be lucking to live through it.
I always felt the flamethrowers were OP.
Those instructions are worthless in all but the rarest of circumstances. I guarantee you your lap-belt + crash position or flotation device isn't going to save you when the ground is coming up and your ground speed is in excess of formula-1 racers. At that point it's just random chance that saves you. The Hudson river "landing" was remarkable simply because its one of the most rare forms of plane crash, the controlled crash where everyone managed to survive. Besides which, once you've flown 10-20 times, those instructions are obvious and easy to remember.
If that's the fear, then all consumer electronics should be banned from flying, just like guns. The random malfunction of consumer electronics potentially interacting with the comm/nav systems on a commercial jetliner has to be 5-10 orders of magnitude more rare than someone building a portable high-power RF white noise source and leaving it on during takeoff.
No one looks down there.
...and modify the setpoint temperature on Grandma's final journey?
Maybe the problem is that unused sick time can be rolled into vacation time.
This is actually the problem. My company doesn't work this way anymore. Sick time is allowed to be taken as needed and does not accumulate. However if you go above X hours a year of sick time you get a stern lecture from your level X boss, if you go above Y hours, Y+X boss, etc... It doesn't get abused often I don't think, at least I haven't seen it.
It sucked. Infection that just wouldn't die and moved all over the place, sinuses, throat, lungs, nodes, etc... I'd stay home a day and think I was getting better, and it would just move somewhere else. Stupid flu.
That worked so well.
By this logic, a free-speech/freedom-of-information loving U.S. Government should be telling the world what weapons it has, and where it keeps all it's good weapons.
If Americans were still fat, but used all electric cars instead of public transportation, would you still hate them so much? Oh wait, I shouldn't ask, you'll probably just find another reason to hate them.
As an American, I'd have to say 'yes'. They'd still be clogging up the roads, demanding newer and larger freeways, complaining about the lack of parking, using more power, and be lazier and fatter, than if they didn't mind building and using some decent public transit.
So: 1) An automobile infrastructure that hasn't been seriously upgraded in 40 years isn't worth complaining about? 2) A parking infrastructure that hasn't been upgraded isn't worth complaining about? Public transportation is just another way to get around, it's not some magical "best" method of transportation.
I can certainly comment on bile and hatred that has no use in a discussion, you seem to vomit that stuff out.
What the heck, this is a hilarious troll. I confess you got me.
1.88M tall, 90 kg, just like every other mutt Dutchman in the world.
Did you vote for anyone who made it illegal to refuse medical service based on income? If so, you helped contribute to this disaster.
Not that I think it's all hunky dory that your income is sized up before you get treated, but legally forcing the medical establishment to treat everyone can ONLY force everyone to pay for people who are less responsible for their health.
Dear god, why not leave your naked prejudice inside before it leaves your hands? I promise I might take you a little more seriously if you can stop hating people just because of their lifestyle.
If Americans were still fat, but used all electric cars instead of public transportation, would you still hate them so much? Oh wait, I shouldn't ask, you'll probably just find another reason to hate them.
I think most celebrities do have a open-use policy on their nether regions, but retain the rights to body-mod to themselves. To be precise, I think they're more like 10-day trial shareware.
To be pedantic, actually nuclear radiation comes in three types: gamma, alpha, and beta radiation. Only gamma radiation is EM, the others are particle decays.
Particles are waves, and waves are particles.
I could represent your body and soul with a wave, but my noise floor is too high and my frequency resolution too coarse.
The sickness is called "Ego", it's incurable, and they all have it. Worse still, they have invented an infection path via reality television which they use to spread this epidemic of narcissism to the rest of the planet
..to 2 billion people when you consider India + China. That means automobile transportation is quickly becoming NORMAL in those areas. That means HORRENDOUS smog problems for the next 4-6 decades in those areas.
In short, this isn't news, it was expected when you consider how much of the world is still developing quickly.
Because this really seems like the elite beating down a serf for daring to see the princess naked.
Chance of measurable exposure to loose radioactive isotopes in the environment after 2 major nuclear accidents in the world: >0.000001%
Chance of ionizing some of your cellular chemistry from high-school-education-level TSA employees using an X-ray source to see your body before you get on a plane: 100%
...In context with Fukushima and a non-polluting energy source: RADIATION BAD!
...In context with police state enabling technology: RADIATION GOOD!
Over a hundred people die from firearms every day in America.
Nearly a hundred people die from automobile accidents in America every day. Do you want to ban the privately owned sportscar because they're built to be driven dangerously?
Freedom is never the problem, but the individual responsibility applied to protecting the freedom of all is. The person who violently murders innocents is sick. Those people don't appear in a vacuum, they manifest over time and interaction with others in our society. When you tease someone you consider a loser instead of getting to know them, you're contributing to the problem. When you bully those you consider beneath you, you're contributing to the problem. When you ignore people who are clearly suffering from a mental problem, you're contributing to the problem. When you entirely neglect and ignore your fellow free man your fellow citizen who may be hurting, you are expecting your freedom to be free. That is a fatal mistake.
Armed communities are often polite communities, but polite communities reduce the need for arms.
"oops, sorry, we didn't mean to legislate teaching you what wasn't known for certain yet."
By the problem of induction, nothing in science in certain. Should we teach nothing? We should teach proper, accepted science (facts that have scientific consesus)--evolution is such a fact.
In any case, they aren't forcing science down people's throats, it is for public education.
False dichotomy. I never suggested science not be taught. I simply said that politicians should not be deciding which science will and will not be taught.