It seems to me that not only isn't Gaddafi in control, of either "his" country or his mind, but hasn't been for quite some time. I think it's really a case of my signature in Libya.
Especially considering the number of satellites accumulating at L4 and L5, one or more would have a line of sight to both Earth and Earth's L3. If we ever get around to doing some Manned Mars missions, we'll probably have some commo birds sitting in L4 and L5 as well.
On the cosmic scale of governmental issues, Gay Marriage is meaningless, why does or why should the government care one way or the other? It's all just manufactured drama to keep the theists and the atheists feeling important and distracted from issues of substance.
You would think that with Obama being a Senator, there wouldn't be any "big book of really secret shit and mutter "Holy Shit! Chaney was right!"" moments, maybe more of a "Wow it's really as bad as they said, I thought they were exaggerating" moment or a "Wow, I didn't know all of the details" moment. Didn't the "big book of really secret shit" go out of style with Truman?
While I've never studied this formally or informally, people like Bertram Russell had a founded what is called Analytic Philosophy. Now if you actually try any type of dimensional analysis on our political philosophy, you find that rather than having any 180 degree differences, the parties in power are a couple degrees off center; so none should be surprised that "parking on the left is now parking on the right"
Actually, as a military police officer, we have a saying shared by other police agencies, "Fruit of the poisonous tree". if the means in which the evidence is obtained is illegal, then the evidence cannot be used. The 4th Amendment protects every citizen, not just suspects. In fact, only suspects can be searched. Either by a warrant or a good faith search.
Well that's certainly part of the problem, in nature if you eat a poisonous fruit you get sick. If you are a bank robber, is having the stolen money taken away the punishment for your illegal activity? If you had busted the 4th amendment and I was your FLS, you'd expect some re-training in evidence collection such as police call in the PX parking lot and the parade field for a few weekends. I bet if every time a cop or a prosecutor got caught pushing the limits over the edge they lost a couple months of weekends to Habitat for Humanity our constitutional and civil rights would be better respected.
Seriously if a former CIA operative and a New York Times investigative reporter get snagged up by something as mundane as telephone and credit card records, then not only do they deserve to get ass-raped hard, fast and dry, but so do the people who train them! Don't we expect more from our spooks? They should have learned not to do that from watching 3 weeks of CSI and Burn Notice.
Maybe requiring a quorum would make elections more interesting. Everyone says they want more voter participation, yet the tactics at least in local elections is to minimize participation so they can pack the polling sites with zealots that agree with them, and cause maximum inconvenience to the people that actually work and foot the bills. If they had to get 40% of the registered voters to at least show up at the polls, most of our elections would be void! I bet they would make it easier to absentee vote!
At that time I believe most of the rest of the world was either a Constitutional Monarchy or a Monarchy and there weren't many example of democratic style governments anywhere.
I don't think Palin is electable, the lefties revulsion of her mystifies me, but it's there. Additionally It seems Palin has more power as an outsider looking in than she'd ever have as an insider, I don't think she's suited to politics in our two and a half party system, she's more suited to a parliamentary system with numerous political parties. I think an Obama vs. Mitt Romney more likely.
I'd buy a migraine-fluorescent light flicker relationship if your talking about fluorescent light with electro-magnetic ballasts, especially in Canada and the EU with their 50 Hz power systems but even in the US with a 60Hz system. That type of fluorescent light does flicker at line frequency and some people are hyper-sensitive to light flicker like migraine suffers, epileptics and autistics. The modern electronic ballasts are much more efficient and run the lamps at 30KHz your not going to be affected at that frequency because the phosphors in the lamp will continue to emit light for far longer than the lamp frequency and CFL use electronic ballasts. You can't even buy the old electro-magnetic ballasts for common bulb sizes in the US without a serious search, because of the coming ban, nobody will buy them and they have been replaced by electronics in the stores.
At work, room 2 and room 4 have the same equipment and are used for the same procedures, I've noticed that since I've changed the ballast in room 4 to electronic (one of the two that is) that when both rooms are empty, room 4 gets used first. I'm tempted to upgrade the other rooms before the existing ballasts fail, the boss is much more pleasant to be around when she doesn't have a migraine.
While I agree that the gov't really needs to take care of more important issues, using CFL in the cold is more a matter of patience for the longer warm-up time, even in sub-zero weather, just turn them on several minutes and they'll be fully functional when you need them. Seeing a CFL flicker is impossible, they run in the 30 KHz range, most people can't see a 60Hz flicker, and that's 500 times slower! Disposal is a matter of taking them to Home Depot if you insist on recycling them or just throwing them in the trash; the mercury is elemental and harmless inspite of what the hysterical crowd would have you believe and is in minuscule amounts. Now if you say the color rendering makes your eyes bleed, that I'll agree with.
To be totally fair, we know the data was manipulated, it was done to eliminated errors as much as possible; things like UHI, Urban Heat Island, effect, instrument errors, errors in reading and recording instruments and of course the erratic spacial distribution of instruments. These manipulations were necessary and scientifically supportable to obtain usable data. The problem is the exact methodology of the manipulations really aren't known or reproducible by independent researchers; there is serious doubt as to whether the original researchers could reproduce their own data. Additionally to independent researchers it appears the some of the manipulations affect other manipulations in erratic ways. It does seem to me that there is a kind of group-think that gives the illusion of conspiracy and collusion in the Alarmists crowd and it also seems to me that because they have an investment, emotional and or financial in the AGW, they are just not as critical of supporting notions. For the most part nefarious motivations are unnecessary to explain what is happening.
It riles me that the press still refers to the Emails, that CRU was legally obligated to release under FOI requests as stolen. The folder they were in was listed as FOI, and was located in a publicly accessible FTP server yet they are consistently called stolen by the MSM.
Some challenges are just ignored; "Show me one peer-reviewed paper that has ruled out natural, internal climate cycles as the cause of most of the recent warming in the thermometer record." Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D
Climate Reference Network Rating Guide - adopted from NCDC Climate Reference Network Handbook, 2002, specifications for siting (section 2.2.1) of NOAA's new Climate Reference Network:
Class 1 (CRN1)- Flat and horizontal ground surrounded by a clear surface with a slope below 1/3 (<19deg). Grass/low vegetation ground cover <10 centimeters high. Sensors located at least 100 meters from artificial heating or reflecting surfaces, such as buildings, concrete surfaces, and parking lots. Far from large bodies of water, except if it is representative of the area, and then located at least 100 meters away. No shading when the sun elevation >3 degrees.
Class 2 (CRN2) - Same as Class 1 with the following differences. Surrounding Vegetation <25 centimeters. No artificial heating sources within 30m. No shading for a sun elevation >5deg.
Class 3 (CRN3) (error >=1C) - Same as Class 2, except no artificial heating sources within 10 meters.
Class 5 (CRN5) (error >= 5C) - Temperature sensor located next to/above an artificial heating source, such a building, roof top, parking lot, or concrete surface." surfacestations.org
they rated the sites as per NOAA own specifications. The "results" that were published were published against Watts recommendations, because he knew that because the project was done by volunteers, and that the easy to find stations would be statistically over-represented compared to hard stations. now with 82% of the network surveyed only 10% of the stations hit into CRN1 and CRN2 categories and would have an expected error of less than 1 degree C and 8% are in CRN5 with errors expected of 5 or more degrees. It strains credibility to be making predictions of hundredths of a degrees with such certainty when your instruments have systemic errors of 2 whole degrees on average. The new digital stations are even worst, they are shipped without enough cable to reach a siting that would qualify better than CRN3! I don't even think that the global thermometer records would even be talked about if the climate modelers didn't need them for backcasting.
OBTW in regards to satellites, the UAH Global temperature anomaly for January is -0.01 degrees.
There is a difference in meaning between the common usage of the word "confidence" and its statistical usage, which is often confusing to the layman, and this is one of the critiques of confidence intervals, namely that in application by non-statisticians, the term "confidence" is misleading.
In common usage, a claim to 95% confidence in something is normally taken as indicating virtual certainty. In statistics, a claim to 95% confidence simply means that the researcher has seen something occur that only happens one time in 20 or less. If one were to roll two dice and get double six (which happens 1/36th of the time, or about 3%), few would claim this as proof that the dice were fixed, although statistically speaking one could have 97% confidence that they were. Similarly, the finding of a statistical link at 95% confidence is not proof, nor even very good evidence, that there is any real connection between the things linked. Meaning of the term "confidence"
I don't think Confidence means what you think it means; basically if a scientist has a 95% confidence in t theory, it means it's plausible enough to warrant the effect involved in further studies and or discussion.
Well I'm 56, my oldest stepson is 42, so we just throw the porn up on the big-screen anyways, but the youngsters are phone-freaks now. Take a way my granddaughter's phone and she wails like she'd just been redacted to Gitmo, she's rather be beaten with a stick than have her phone taken.
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Did you forget to take your meds today?
No he's taking the same stuff as Charlie Sheen, or was that Charlie Harper, or is there a difference anymore?
It seems to me that not only isn't Gaddafi in control, of either "his" country or his mind, but hasn't been for quite some time. I think it's really a case of my signature in Libya.
Why not just do a ringworld?
Especially considering the number of satellites accumulating at L4 and L5, one or more would have a line of sight to both Earth and Earth's L3. If we ever get around to doing some Manned Mars missions, we'll probably have some commo birds sitting in L4 and L5 as well.
On the cosmic scale of governmental issues, Gay Marriage is meaningless, why does or why should the government care one way or the other? It's all just manufactured drama to keep the theists and the atheists feeling important and distracted from issues of substance.
You would think that with Obama being a Senator, there wouldn't be any "big book of really secret shit and mutter "Holy Shit! Chaney was right!"" moments, maybe more of a "Wow it's really as bad as they said, I thought they were exaggerating" moment or a "Wow, I didn't know all of the details" moment. Didn't the "big book of really secret shit" go out of style with Truman?
While I've never studied this formally or informally, people like Bertram Russell had a founded what is called Analytic Philosophy. Now if you actually try any type of dimensional analysis on our political philosophy, you find that rather than having any 180 degree differences, the parties in power are a couple degrees off center; so none should be surprised that "parking on the left is now parking on the right"
Actually, as a military police officer, we have a saying shared by other police agencies, "Fruit of the poisonous tree". if the means in which the evidence is obtained is illegal, then the evidence cannot be used. The 4th Amendment protects every citizen, not just suspects. In fact, only suspects can be searched. Either by a warrant or a good faith search.
Well that's certainly part of the problem, in nature if you eat a poisonous fruit you get sick. If you are a bank robber, is having the stolen money taken away the punishment for your illegal activity? If you had busted the 4th amendment and I was your FLS, you'd expect some re-training in evidence collection such as police call in the PX parking lot and the parade field for a few weekends. I bet if every time a cop or a prosecutor got caught pushing the limits over the edge they lost a couple months of weekends to Habitat for Humanity our constitutional and civil rights would be better respected.
Seriously if a former CIA operative and a New York Times investigative reporter get snagged up by something as mundane as telephone and credit card records, then not only do they deserve to get ass-raped hard, fast and dry, but so do the people who train them! Don't we expect more from our spooks? They should have learned not to do that from watching 3 weeks of CSI and Burn Notice.
Maybe requiring a quorum would make elections more interesting. Everyone says they want more voter participation, yet the tactics at least in local elections is to minimize participation so they can pack the polling sites with zealots that agree with them, and cause maximum inconvenience to the people that actually work and foot the bills. If they had to get 40% of the registered voters to at least show up at the polls, most of our elections would be void! I bet they would make it easier to absentee vote!
At that time I believe most of the rest of the world was either a Constitutional Monarchy or a Monarchy and there weren't many example of democratic style governments anywhere.
I don't think Palin is electable, the lefties revulsion of her mystifies me, but it's there. Additionally It seems Palin has more power as an outsider looking in than she'd ever have as an insider, I don't think she's suited to politics in our two and a half party system, she's more suited to a parliamentary system with numerous political parties. I think an Obama vs. Mitt Romney more likely.
Because if he changed it merely to get his ticket punched, it'll whither on the vine after the next election.
Don't like radiation poisoning, don't live down-wind from a coal-fired powerplant.
I'd buy a migraine-fluorescent light flicker relationship if your talking about fluorescent light with electro-magnetic ballasts, especially in Canada and the EU with their 50 Hz power systems but even in the US with a 60Hz system. That type of fluorescent light does flicker at line frequency and some people are hyper-sensitive to light flicker like migraine suffers, epileptics and autistics. The modern electronic ballasts are much more efficient and run the lamps at 30KHz your not going to be affected at that frequency because the phosphors in the lamp will continue to emit light for far longer than the lamp frequency and CFL use electronic ballasts. You can't even buy the old electro-magnetic ballasts for common bulb sizes in the US without a serious search, because of the coming ban, nobody will buy them and they have been replaced by electronics in the stores.
At work, room 2 and room 4 have the same equipment and are used for the same procedures, I've noticed that since I've changed the ballast in room 4 to electronic (one of the two that is) that when both rooms are empty, room 4 gets used first. I'm tempted to upgrade the other rooms before the existing ballasts fail, the boss is much more pleasant to be around when she doesn't have a migraine.
While I agree that the gov't really needs to take care of more important issues, using CFL in the cold is more a matter of patience for the longer warm-up time, even in sub-zero weather, just turn them on several minutes and they'll be fully functional when you need them. Seeing a CFL flicker is impossible, they run in the 30 KHz range, most people can't see a 60Hz flicker, and that's 500 times slower! Disposal is a matter of taking them to Home Depot if you insist on recycling them or just throwing them in the trash; the mercury is elemental and harmless inspite of what the hysterical crowd would have you believe and is in minuscule amounts.
Now if you say the color rendering makes your eyes bleed, that I'll agree with.
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Anyone bitching about their right to buy an incandescent bulb is a fucking moron.
But my Granddaughter love her EasyBake oven you insensitive clod; for the love of God, think of the children!
To be totally fair, we know the data was manipulated, it was done to eliminated errors as much as possible; things like UHI, Urban Heat Island, effect, instrument errors, errors in reading and recording instruments and of course the erratic spacial distribution of instruments. These manipulations were necessary and scientifically supportable to obtain usable data. The problem is the exact methodology of the manipulations really aren't known or reproducible by independent researchers; there is serious doubt as to whether the original researchers could reproduce their own data. Additionally to independent researchers it appears the some of the manipulations affect other manipulations in erratic ways. It does seem to me that there is a kind of group-think that gives the illusion of conspiracy and collusion in the Alarmists crowd and it also seems to me that because they have an investment, emotional and or financial in the AGW, they are just not as critical of supporting notions. For the most part nefarious motivations are unnecessary to explain what is happening.
It riles me that the press still refers to the Emails, that CRU was legally obligated to release under FOI requests as stolen. The folder they were in was listed as FOI, and was located in a publicly accessible FTP server yet they are consistently called stolen by the MSM.
Some challenges are just ignored; "Show me one peer-reviewed paper that has ruled out natural, internal climate cycles as the cause of most of the recent warming in the thermometer record." Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D
Not quite accurate
they rated the sites as per NOAA own specifications. The "results" that were published were published against Watts recommendations, because he knew that because the project was done by volunteers, and that the easy to find stations would be statistically over-represented compared to hard stations. now with 82% of the network surveyed only 10% of the stations hit into CRN1 and CRN2 categories and would have an expected error of less than 1 degree C and 8% are in CRN5 with errors expected of 5 or more degrees. It strains credibility to be making predictions of hundredths of a degrees with such certainty when your instruments have systemic errors of 2 whole degrees on average. The new digital stations are even worst, they are shipped without enough cable to reach a siting that would qualify better than CRN3! I don't even think that the global thermometer records would even be talked about if the climate modelers didn't need them for backcasting.
OBTW in regards to satellites, the UAH Global temperature anomaly for January is -0.01 degrees.
I don't think Confidence means what you think it means; basically if a scientist has a 95% confidence in t theory, it means it's plausible enough to warrant the effect involved in further studies and or discussion.
I hope you realize that without any CO2 in the atmosphere, the planet would turn into a ball of ice.
Well I'm 56, my oldest stepson is 42, so we just throw the porn up on the big-screen anyways, but the youngsters are phone-freaks now. Take a way my granddaughter's phone and she wails like she'd just been redacted to Gitmo, she's rather be beaten with a stick than have her phone taken.