People started buying SUVs en-masse when car companies, to keep up with CAFE standards, started downsizing their cars to the point that the average family couldn't fit in them anymore (2 adults + 2.5 kids) You used to be able to seat six comfortably in a large sedan. Such a vehicle doesn't exist anymore.
Sure they do. Examples: Chrysler 300, Ford Taurus, Chevy Impala, Dodge Charger, Buick Lacrosse, Cadillac CTS-V wagon. They're not as large as some cars used to be, but they're still enough to seat 5. More seating is available in some of the crossovers, which have somewhat replaced sedans and in minivans, which will seat even more. Minivans typically get substantially better mileage than SUVs with comparable seating.
I've read that a ten percentage increase in electrical costs would be enough to sequester all the CO2 we're currently emitting.
That would be nice if it were true, but it's not. For coal-fired power plants, it would consume about 25% of the plant's output. So figure on a 25% increase in the cost of electricity.
And that's just electricity. How are you going to sequester the C02 coming out of your tailpipe and going up your furnace flue? What about the C02 produced when you make concrete?
How definite is the attribution to humans? The carbon dioxide curve gives a better match than anything else we’ve tried. Its magnitude is consistent with the calculated greenhouse effect — extra warming from trapped heat radiation. These facts don’t prove causality and they shouldn’t end skepticism, but they raise the bar: to be considered seriously, an alternative explanation must match the data at least as well as carbon dioxide does.
It's simple enough for carries to identify what a phone's IMEI is and not allow it on their network if it's reported lost or stolen. That would stop most cell phone theft.
Men and women have always liked different kinds of games. There's a large overlap set though. Casino games are popular with both sexes, as are mental games like Scrabble. Games oriented around traditional or stereotyped male activities (building, adventure, combat) attract mostly boys and men. Girls like games oriented around female-stereotyped activities like decorating more than boys and men do. Whether this is because they feel like it's appropriate because of the assignment of the gender roles or whether it's because of innate differences in what kind of activities are attractive to males vs. females, I don't know.
I take issue with your title. Some games are addictive to women, e.g. Farmville, Words with Friends.
Why was the word "Predict" used in the title. "Observe" is the correct word. One doesn't "predict" colorblindness. One observes that the individual is colorblind. They're describing the detection of conditions that already exist like colorblindness, ADD, douchebaggery, age and preferences. Maybe if they added Alzheimers. But there's a growing body of evidence that Alzheimers is a lifelong degenerative brain disorder that can be observed decades before it becomes a medical diagnosis.
>Child has games and the internet and can Google or otherwise deduce that his yuppie helicopter parents are collecting data about him through his games.
>Male child because girls don't play video games until they're old enough to use video game playing to whore for boys' attention
Yellow Card: Inappropriate use of the word whoring. Whoring means the use of sex to get something other than attention, sex social power or babies. Those are the normal and legitimate uses of sex.
Carry on!
>Child gets edgy and rebels and goes outside, away from supervision, and acquires a bicycle on the black market
Editorial note: black market bicycles are the best.
>Comes back home a half-hour late for dinner with a scrape on his knee, yuppie parents flail their arms and declare their kid "out of control."
>Take him to shrink and drug him with off-label prescribed antipsychotics
>Kid docile for over 10 years
>Kid shoots the fuck up out of an Aurora, CO movie theater soon after that
That may be. And if so I expect companies like Dell to start offering it as an option. But they probably won't offer it as a cheaper-than-Windows option because the cost of Windows is now built into their customers' expectations of how much a PC costs.
But I don't see a just-around-the-corner rush from Windows to Linux. Linux still has an image problem. Most customers see it as a system for programmers and nerds that's not accessible to the guy or gal who just wants the computer to handle email, manage and create documents, pictures, videos and play games. They want it to be easy. Linux can be easy but the market doesn't see it that way. Until the image problem is abated, the mass market won't take it up.
Another confounding problem is the continued prevalence of websites and web apps that only work right with Internet Explorer. If you care about those, it means you have to have IE, which means you will be running Windows. All it takes is one of those and you'll regret having Linux.
Thus causing the scope creep I mentioned. But there's also the undesirable effect that during that 6 months or more that they are getting up to speed on what the project is and its current status, the project is running without effective government oversight, so it might make no progress or develop in directions that don't meet the government's goals.
ALL government projects including military ones should be run by civilian project managers and every effort should be made to have personnel continuity start-to-finish. In fact, there should be a technical oversight manager and a separate budget manager. One is in charge of making sure all the technical goals are met in a timely fashion and the other is in charge of making sure that they don't exceed their budget. Neither should have authority to change the constraints without oversight somebody more senior and after review of whether the technical changes are really needed and the money is really worth it.
I don't think you understand how defense programs typically go so wildly over budget and schedule. Project oversight is passed from person to person every two years or less. Each officer in charge spends the first six months or more learning what the project is, often from the contractors themselves. That's bad enough. But multi year tech development contracts suffer from continual scope creep as the state of the art advances on parallel to the project under development
The recent debacle in Japan and the previous disaster in Chernobyl illustrate why nuclear energy isn't a viable option for third-world economies. If first-world countries can't manage the risk of nuclear power plants effectively, third-world countries will be much less able to do so, and they'll wind up fucking themselves over much worse than Japan did if they try. The economic strains will inevitably cause them to skimp on safety and maintainance, with the result of more breakdowns and meltdowns per facility. That is, until a better, more fail-safe, lower maintainance design is developed and demonstrated in the first world.
Then there's the issue of transporting nuclear fuel all over the place and dealing with spent fuel in a responsible manner, another thing that the first world can barely do.
There's a big difference between a 10-20% infant mortality rate and a 20-30% mortality rate across the entire population. The latter has never existed in any culture that survived for a generation.
And they'll be reluctant to do that. They Sell Windows boxes largely because Windows is a standard OS that's easy for users and it lets them offload a good chunk of their support costs. Dell doesn't want to help you unfuck your Linux system because too much of the support and warranty costs would fall on Dell. The more closed the system is the easier and cheaper it is to.maintain and support. That's why so many employers have such overbearing support and security policies.
Waste heat isn't the problem. The main heat source is and will always be the sun. Nuclear power doesn't form a barrier to the radiation of heat into space. Carbon dioxide, water and some other gases do. That's where people can affect climate.
But often jargon is completely opaque or worse because it often uses words that mean something different in conventional use than in science. Bur many ideas can barely be described at all without the appropriate jargon.
In isolation it's an unusual but not unprecedented or even very unexpected. But it does take place in the context of a recent period of long and warm Arctic summers. Based on that trend it's likely that the next such big thaw will occur sooner rather than later.
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People started buying SUVs en-masse when car companies, to keep up with CAFE standards, started downsizing their cars to the point that the average family couldn't fit in them anymore (2 adults + 2.5 kids) You used to be able to seat six comfortably in a large sedan. Such a vehicle doesn't exist anymore.
Sure they do. Examples: Chrysler 300, Ford Taurus, Chevy Impala, Dodge Charger, Buick Lacrosse, Cadillac CTS-V wagon. They're not as large as some cars used to be, but they're still enough to seat 5. More seating is available in some of the crossovers, which have somewhat replaced sedans and in minivans, which will seat even more. Minivans typically get substantially better mileage than SUVs with comparable seating.
Nope. China surpassed the USA in CO2 production years ago.
But the cheap and dirty solution is always going to be cheaper than the economically responsible and affordable solution.
I've read that a ten percentage increase in electrical costs would be enough to sequester all the CO2 we're currently emitting.
That would be nice if it were true, but it's not. For coal-fired power plants, it would consume about 25% of the plant's output. So figure on a 25% increase in the cost of electricity. And that's just electricity. How are you going to sequester the C02 coming out of your tailpipe and going up your furnace flue? What about the C02 produced when you make concrete?
There will still be coasts. We'll just have to build new cities a little higher. It will only cost a few dozen trillion dollars.
I believe you're referring to methane hydrate and it's not under the ocean floor but ON it.
How definite is the attribution to humans? The carbon dioxide curve gives a better match than anything else we’ve tried. Its magnitude is consistent with the calculated greenhouse effect — extra warming from trapped heat radiation. These facts don’t prove causality and they shouldn’t end skepticism, but they raise the bar: to be considered seriously, an alternative explanation must match the data at least as well as carbon dioxide does.
Won't it kinda suck if you live in Florida and aren't a manatee?
We all believe that, right?
It's simple enough for carries to identify what a phone's IMEI is and not allow it on their network if it's reported lost or stolen. That would stop most cell phone theft.
Men and women have always liked different kinds of games. There's a large overlap set though. Casino games are popular with both sexes, as are mental games like Scrabble. Games oriented around traditional or stereotyped male activities (building, adventure, combat) attract mostly boys and men. Girls like games oriented around female-stereotyped activities like decorating more than boys and men do. Whether this is because they feel like it's appropriate because of the assignment of the gender roles or whether it's because of innate differences in what kind of activities are attractive to males vs. females, I don't know.
I take issue with your title. Some games are addictive to women, e.g. Farmville, Words with Friends.
Why was the word "Predict" used in the title. "Observe" is the correct word. One doesn't "predict" colorblindness. One observes that the individual is colorblind. They're describing the detection of conditions that already exist like colorblindness, ADD, douchebaggery, age and preferences. Maybe if they added Alzheimers. But there's a growing body of evidence that Alzheimers is a lifelong degenerative brain disorder that can be observed decades before it becomes a medical diagnosis.
Pretty easy for muliplayer games. The douchebag is the one who often survives when his teammates are killed.
>Child has games and the internet and can Google or otherwise deduce that his yuppie helicopter parents are collecting data about him through his games.
>Male child because girls don't play video games until they're old enough to use video game playing to whore for boys' attention
Yellow Card: Inappropriate use of the word whoring . Whoring means the use of sex to get something other than attention, sex social power or babies. Those are the normal and legitimate uses of sex.
Carry on!
>Child gets edgy and rebels and goes outside, away from supervision, and acquires a bicycle on the black market
Editorial note: black market bicycles are the best.
>Comes back home a half-hour late for dinner with a scrape on his knee, yuppie parents flail their arms and declare their kid "out of control." >Take him to shrink and drug him with off-label prescribed antipsychotics
>Kid docile for over 10 years
>Kid shoots the fuck up out of an Aurora, CO movie theater soon after that
America, fuck yeah!
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That may be. And if so I expect companies like Dell to start offering it as an option. But they probably won't offer it as a cheaper-than-Windows option because the cost of Windows is now built into their customers' expectations of how much a PC costs.
But I don't see a just-around-the-corner rush from Windows to Linux. Linux still has an image problem. Most customers see it as a system for programmers and nerds that's not accessible to the guy or gal who just wants the computer to handle email, manage and create documents, pictures, videos and play games. They want it to be easy. Linux can be easy but the market doesn't see it that way. Until the image problem is abated, the mass market won't take it up.
Another confounding problem is the continued prevalence of websites and web apps that only work right with Internet Explorer. If you care about those, it means you have to have IE, which means you will be running Windows. All it takes is one of those and you'll regret having Linux.
Thus causing the scope creep I mentioned. But there's also the undesirable effect that during that 6 months or more that they are getting up to speed on what the project is and its current status, the project is running without effective government oversight, so it might make no progress or develop in directions that don't meet the government's goals.
ALL government projects including military ones should be run by civilian project managers and every effort should be made to have personnel continuity start-to-finish. In fact, there should be a technical oversight manager and a separate budget manager. One is in charge of making sure all the technical goals are met in a timely fashion and the other is in charge of making sure that they don't exceed their budget. Neither should have authority to change the constraints without oversight somebody more senior and after review of whether the technical changes are really needed and the money is really worth it.
I don't think you understand how defense programs typically go so wildly over budget and schedule. Project oversight is passed from person to person every two years or less. Each officer in charge spends the first six months or more learning what the project is, often from the contractors themselves. That's bad enough. But multi year tech development contracts suffer from continual scope creep as the state of the art advances on parallel to the project under development
The recent debacle in Japan and the previous disaster in Chernobyl illustrate why nuclear energy isn't a viable option for third-world economies. If first-world countries can't manage the risk of nuclear power plants effectively, third-world countries will be much less able to do so, and they'll wind up fucking themselves over much worse than Japan did if they try. The economic strains will inevitably cause them to skimp on safety and maintainance, with the result of more breakdowns and meltdowns per facility. That is, until a better, more fail-safe, lower maintainance design is developed and demonstrated in the first world.
Then there's the issue of transporting nuclear fuel all over the place and dealing with spent fuel in a responsible manner, another thing that the first world can barely do.
There's a big difference between a 10-20% infant mortality rate and a 20-30% mortality rate across the entire population. The latter has never existed in any culture that survived for a generation.
It might be good to avoid jargon in headlines for the above-illustrated reason.
And they'll be reluctant to do that. They Sell Windows boxes largely because Windows is a standard OS that's easy for users and it lets them offload a good chunk of their support costs. Dell doesn't want to help you unfuck your Linux system because too much of the support and warranty costs would fall on Dell. The more closed the system is the easier and cheaper it is to.maintain and support. That's why so many employers have such overbearing support and security policies.
Waste heat isn't the problem. The main heat source is and will always be the sun. Nuclear power doesn't form a barrier to the radiation of heat into space. Carbon dioxide, water and some other gases do. That's where people can affect climate.
But often jargon is completely opaque or worse because it often uses words that mean something different in conventional use than in science. Bur many ideas can barely be described at all without the appropriate jargon.
Ice cores should be able to resolve the question of whether there are trends in thaw and how they correlate to climate.
In isolation it's an unusual but not unprecedented or even very unexpected. But it does take place in the context of a recent period of long and warm Arctic summers. Based on that trend it's likely that the next such big thaw will occur sooner rather than later.