The bottom line is U.S. House Science Committee Chair Lamar Smith, subpoenaed Kathryn Sullivan, Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to produce documents, Sullivan is probably lucky she refused under Obama because there's a good chance a Trump administration DOJ would be far less tolerant of Contempt of Congress . Regardless, while congress doesn't sign NOAA's paycheck, they do however write the amount that is written on it, and going out of your way to piss off Congressman rarely is a good strategic career move for government bureaucrats.
You should know with all of the crappola over Emails, hacked Emails, Russians hacking Email, and all of the ducking and dodging of subpoenas and FOIA requests, that its highly likely that Government and Government sponsored researchers are going to lose responsibility for managing their communications and communications security at the departmental level and below.
Umm, what? The biosphere "quite likes CO2"? Are you trolling or just ignorant? We're releasing billions of tons of CO2 that has been sequestered out of the atmosphere for millions of years and you're arguing that's somehow a good thing? Support your (absurd) statement with a viable hypothesis and actual data.
All you had to do was follow his link.
From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on April 25.
An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet’s vegetated regions. The greening represents an increase in leaves on plants and trees equivalent in area to two times the continental United States. Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds
If you look honestly at the Minoan warm period (Minoan warm period approximately 3500 years ago was 4C warmer) , the Roman warm period and the Medieval Warm Period(The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) just 1000 years ago was 2C warmer than today), you'll see humans and human civilization did pretty good during the warm periods.
Even with the Argo buoys, the readings are too sparse for anything other than a cursory survey to see where real monitoring may be needed, 3800 to cover the oceans isn't enough to even worry about.
Russia exporting LNG to the US Please, that's just stupid talk, while Russia is the #1 exporter, we're #7, and we just keep finding more and more; we just found 20 billion barrels of oil, 16 trillion cubic feet of associated natural gas, and 1.6 billion barrels of natural gas liquids, in the Midland Basin Wolfcamp shale. What gives Putin nightmares is Qatar, the #2 exporter building the Qatar-Turkey pipeline. I'd say Russian export are more of an existential thing than a imperialistic thing; and people are more dangerous when you threaten their existence than they are for the ambitions.
The greenhouse effect that is in the realm of science fair projects, isn't the same as the unfortunately named Greenhouse Effect in the atmosphere, and saying it is only make your ignorance obvious. The warming experienced in greenhouses is caused by the simple obstruction of convection of warm air. The greenhouse effect in the atmosphere is caused by the scattering of a narrow portion of the infra-red light radiated by the surface of the Earth as it is heated by visible light. This scattering is caused primarily by water vapor and secondarily by CO2 and an insignificant role can be ascribed to methane. This heat retentive effect is also negated by water vapor carrying the heat of entropy to be released as the vapor condenses into clouds and by changes in albedo caused by the clouds.
Please try and keep up and do something interesting like learn on your own rather than parroting the stupid shit some other moron dumped into your head.
What exactly do you believe we are not doing and what effect do you believe will be achieved if we start doing what you believe we should be doing? Oh I know, I bet you believe we should cut emissions, Right? well the
US has cut emissions,
EU has cut emissions,
Russia has cut emissions,
Japan has cut emissions,
Indonesia has cut emissions,
Global Carbon Budget 2016. What would happen if we cut emissions to zero in the US? well by the models used by climatologiists, it would decrese the warming of the planet from a projected 4-6C to a much cooler 3.5-5.5C! How could we make a real difference? well China and India is putting out almost as much CO2 as The US and India combined, and both are increasing their emissions as well, so obviously the real answer would be to either have India and China fall on their swords or start massive ocean fertilization.
Rocked in what sense? Mastering the art of charlatanism?
Bingo! Trump, Clinton and Sanders, the millennials are still falling for that crap! Global Warming, Affordable Healthcare Act, Russian Hackers, need I go on.
Rubin's appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings is a good example of the Yippies emphasis on conducting political protest as theater, and creating as much attention as possible to their dissent by turning it into a spectacle. Rubin was subpoenaed by HUAC in Washington but instead of pleading the Fifth Amendment as was common, he entered the room dressed in a rented 18th-century American Revolutionary War uniform, proudly claiming to be a descendant of Jefferson and Paine. "Nothing is more American than revolution," he told the committee.[10] Rubin showing total lack of concern or worries, lightheartedly blew soap bubbles as members of Congress questioned his Communist affiliations. He subsequently appeared before the HUAC as a bare-chested guerrilla in Viet Cong pajamas, with war paint and carrying a toy M-16 rifle, and later as Santa Claus Jerry Rubin
Where I'm at, Internet through the satellite and is metered, but 4Glte through my phone isn't, so anything that gets to the TV from the internet goes through my Android phone, with anti-virus software installed on it first. The whole concept of a smart TV just seems weird.
It cost the manufacturer millions just to develop that software. Do you think by you get the right to own it just by paying a few hundred bucks?
Well since it runs on Android, which is a version of Linux, which is distributed under the GPL, for free, the short answer is basically yes, costing the manufacturer $Millions is unlikely, $10's of thousands is probably stretching it.
The manufacture won't hand you the source code, because that will compromise his trade secrets and therefore, harm his business.
The kernel portions are distributed under V2 of the GPL and they must absolutely be available, the Android portions distributed by Google/Android have source code available. My guess is that since the factory reset occurs during the device being in a switched off mode, it hooks into the linux kernel and is either GPL'ed or Google/Android source code.
The top 1 percent (1.3 million filers) paid a greater share of income taxes (38.1 percent) than the bottom 90 percent (122.4 million filers) combined (29.8 percent).
That's livable homes in reasonable neighborhoods (like in "Don't Breath"), if your not picky and wait for the tax foreclosures to go to auctions, you can drop a zero. Crime has even gone down, not enough left to support a predator population.
Most Municipalities require Police to live in the jurisdiction and to also preform their Police duties off the clock if they witness a crime or emergency.
That's pretty much what's happening in every "Blue State", it's like the song "I'd Love To Change The World, Tax the rich, feed the poor Till there are no rich no more? " Maybe some of these Palo Alto companies are going to have to make some strategic decisions, if there are no people who are able to afford to work support roles like teachers, police, rapid transit drivers, day care workers ans store clerks. If they are not careful, we may see the return of The Company Town
When I was a kid, I slept in a room with two bunk beds and a crib. It was me and four siblings. Was I "homeless"?
Could be, the proper term is "Homeless or sub-standard housing", it's probably a HUD term and effects community grants and such, especially if two bunk beds means two sets of bunk beds rather than 1 set of two beds, bunked.
$50K can go a long ways in most of the "Fly-Over" states, you can get a nice double-wide, a heated pole barn garage that you can actually entertain a serious hobby in while still being able to park 3 cars, on 2 acres of land in the $75 - $150K range. Top it off with property taxes in the $2K range, your effective wealth may go up, especially if the Wife adds in another $35-45K.
I also agree with many posters that the parent article is stupid in it's framing of people as homeless who are not.
In fairness the article did say,
Remarkably, slightly more than one-third of students – or 1,147 children – are defined as homeless here, mostly sharing homes with other families because their parents cannot afford one of their own, and also living in RVs and shelters.
which implies a legal definition rather than an literal one.
The Left failed to deliver for the Rust Belt and we got Trump. Heaven help us if California goes that direction and with our bullshit leadership it just might.
The left failed more than just the rust belt, pretty much all of the blue States have had negative job and population movements for quite a while, unless something changes real quick even California is going to realize they are just circling the drain.
No he's not wrong, remember the controversy when Romney was illegally taped saying the same thing at a fund raiser? 45% of Americans pay no federal income taxes, and for the most part if you pay no Federal, you likely pay little or no State income tax as well.
he Tax Policy Center has updated its estimate of the percentage of households that will not pay federal income tax this year. We now figure it is 45.3 percent, nearly 5 percentage points higher than our 2013 estimate of 40.4 percent. But that doesn’t mean more Americans have moved off the tax rolls. Instead, the higher estimate reflects new and better estimates of the number of Americans who don’t file tax returns. Those additional non-payers were there all the time—we just failed to count them. New Estimates Of How Many Households Pay No Federal Income Tax
The Internal Revenue Service has recently released new data on individual income taxes for calendar year 2012... The top 1 percent of taxpayers earned their largest share of income since 2007 at 21.9 percent of total AGI and paid their largest share of the income tax burden since the same year at 38.1 percent of total income taxes.... In 2012, the top 50 percent of all taxpayers (68 million filers) paid 97.2 percent of all income taxes while the bottom 50 percent paid the remaining 2.8 percent.... The top 1 percent (1.3 million filers) paid a greater share of income taxes (38.1 percent) than the bottom 90 percent (122.4 million filers) combined (29.8 percent). Summary of Latest Federal Income Tax Data
The tax codes have become insanely complicated, mostly due to the codes being used for a social engineering carrot and stick, and if this doesn't get fixed, things will get ugly and it will be uglyist for those on unearned entitlements.
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The bottom line is U.S. House Science Committee Chair Lamar Smith, subpoenaed Kathryn Sullivan, Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to produce documents, Sullivan is probably lucky she refused under Obama because there's a good chance a Trump administration DOJ would be far less tolerant of Contempt of Congress . Regardless, while congress doesn't sign NOAA's paycheck, they do however write the amount that is written on it, and going out of your way to piss off Congressman rarely is a good strategic career move for government bureaucrats.
You should know with all of the crappola over Emails, hacked Emails, Russians hacking Email, and all of the ducking and dodging of subpoenas and FOIA requests, that its highly likely that Government and Government sponsored researchers are going to lose responsibility for managing their communications and communications security at the departmental level and below.
Umm, what? The biosphere "quite likes CO2"? Are you trolling or just ignorant? We're releasing billions of tons of CO2 that has been sequestered out of the atmosphere for millions of years and you're arguing that's somehow a good thing? Support your (absurd) statement with a viable hypothesis and actual data.
All you had to do was follow his link.
or was that a too inconvenient of a truth?
If you look honestly at the Minoan warm period (Minoan warm period approximately 3500 years ago was 4C warmer) , the Roman warm period and the Medieval Warm Period(The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) just 1000 years ago was 2C warmer than today), you'll see humans and human civilization did pretty good during the warm periods.
Even with the Argo buoys, the readings are too sparse for anything other than a cursory survey to see where real monitoring may be needed, 3800 to cover the oceans isn't enough to even worry about.
Russia exporting LNG to the US Please, that's just stupid talk, while Russia is the #1 exporter, we're #7, and we just keep finding more and more; we just found 20 billion barrels of oil, 16 trillion cubic feet of associated natural gas, and 1.6 billion barrels of natural gas liquids, in the Midland Basin Wolfcamp shale.
What gives Putin nightmares is Qatar, the #2 exporter building the Qatar-Turkey pipeline. I'd say Russian export are more of an existential thing than a imperialistic thing; and people are more dangerous when you threaten their existence than they are for the ambitions.
The greenhouse effect that is in the realm of science fair projects, isn't the same as the unfortunately named Greenhouse Effect in the atmosphere, and saying it is only make your ignorance obvious. The warming experienced in greenhouses is caused by the simple obstruction of convection of warm air. The greenhouse effect in the atmosphere is caused by the scattering of a narrow portion of the infra-red light radiated by the surface of the Earth as it is heated by visible light. This scattering is caused primarily by water vapor and secondarily by CO2 and an insignificant role can be ascribed to methane. This heat retentive effect is also negated by water vapor carrying the heat of entropy to be released as the vapor condenses into clouds and by changes in albedo caused by the clouds.
Please try and keep up and do something interesting like learn on your own rather than parroting the stupid shit some other moron dumped into your head.
What exactly do you believe we are not doing and what effect do you believe will be achieved if we start doing what you believe we should be doing?
Oh I know, I bet you believe we should cut emissions, Right? well the
Global Carbon Budget 2016.
What would happen if we cut emissions to zero in the US? well by the models used by climatologiists, it would decrese the warming of the planet from a projected 4-6C to a much cooler 3.5-5.5C!
How could we make a real difference? well China and India is putting out almost as much CO2 as The US and India combined, and both are increasing their emissions as well, so obviously the real answer would be to either have India and China fall on their swords or start massive ocean fertilization.
Rocked in what sense? Mastering the art of charlatanism?
Bingo! Trump, Clinton and Sanders, the millennials are still falling for that crap! Global Warming, Affordable Healthcare Act, Russian Hackers, need I go on.
Digest access authentication would have stopped it cold, a lot of spiders use the robots.txt as a hint to where the good stuff might be.
We Boomers rocked,
and COINTELPRO
Where I'm at, Internet through the satellite and is metered, but 4Glte through my phone isn't, so anything that gets to the TV from the internet goes through my Android phone, with anti-virus software installed on it first. The whole concept of a smart TV just seems weird.
It cost the manufacturer millions just to develop that software. Do you think by you get the right to own it just by paying a few hundred bucks?
Well since it runs on Android, which is a version of Linux, which is distributed under the GPL, for free, the short answer is basically yes, costing the manufacturer $Millions is unlikely, $10's of thousands is probably stretching it.
The manufacture won't hand you the source code, because that will compromise his trade secrets and therefore, harm his business.
The kernel portions are distributed under V2 of the GPL and they must absolutely be available, the Android portions distributed by Google/Android have source code available. My guess is that since the factory reset occurs during the device being in a switched off mode, it hooks into the linux kernel and is either GPL'ed or Google/Android source code.
There are some real assholes who have did nothing other than being born and inherited their millions or billions.
Those people usually don't retain the wealth past the third generation.
The minute the masses start punishing success is the minute the whole system fails.
That train left the station a long time ago
The top 1 percent (1.3 million filers) paid a greater share of income taxes (38.1 percent) than the bottom 90 percent (122.4 million filers) combined (29.8 percent).
That's livable homes in reasonable neighborhoods (like in "Don't Breath"), if your not picky and wait for the tax foreclosures to go to auctions, you can drop a zero. Crime has even gone down, not enough left to support a predator population.
Most Municipalities require Police to live in the jurisdiction and to also preform their Police duties off the clock if they witness a crime or emergency.
R moving into the whitehouse. So, as is tradition, 'homelessness' just became a much bigger problem.
Oh yeah, the people living in this Artist's Colony were so much better off under President
Obama and Governor Brown's more permissive leadership.
That's pretty much what's happening in every "Blue State", it's like the song "I'd Love To Change The World, Tax the rich, feed the poor Till there are no rich no more? " Maybe some of these Palo Alto companies are going to have to make some strategic decisions, if there are no people who are able to afford to work support roles like teachers, police, rapid transit drivers, day care workers ans store clerks. If they are not careful, we may see the return of The Company Town
When I was a kid, I slept in a room with two bunk beds and a crib. It was me and four siblings. Was I "homeless"?
Could be, the proper term is "Homeless or sub-standard housing", it's probably a HUD term and effects community grants and such, especially if two bunk beds means two sets of bunk beds rather than 1 set of two beds, bunked.
The only people who can claim a permanent right to live there are the Native Americans (who truly were there first).
You say that like there was only one group of "Native Americans" and they were always sitting around the campfire withe their neighbors every night.
Built in 1855? I know for a fact now that you are one of the most knee jerk ignorant fucksticks around here
Yeah who in there right mind would want a place that could qualify as a historical landmark tax break!
Don't worry about it, with the punitive business climate in California, your job is moving to Austin any time now anyway.
$50K can go a long ways in most of the "Fly-Over" states, you can get a nice double-wide, a heated pole barn garage that you can actually entertain a serious hobby in while still being able to park 3 cars, on 2 acres of land in the $75 - $150K range. Top it off with property taxes in the $2K range, your effective wealth may go up, especially if the Wife adds in another $35-45K.
I also agree with many posters that the parent article is stupid in it's framing of people as homeless who are not.
In fairness the article did say,
which implies a legal definition rather than an literal one.
The Left failed to deliver for the Rust Belt and we got Trump. Heaven help us if California goes that direction and with our bullshit leadership it just might.
The left failed more than just the rust belt, pretty much all of the blue States have had negative job and population movements for quite a while, unless something changes real quick even California is going to realize they are just circling the drain.
No he's not wrong, remember the controversy when Romney was illegally taped saying the same thing at a fund raiser? 45% of Americans pay no federal income taxes, and for the most part if you pay no Federal, you likely pay little or no State income tax as well.
The tax codes have become insanely complicated, mostly due to the codes being used for a social engineering carrot and stick, and if this doesn't get fixed, things will get ugly and it will be uglyist for those on unearned entitlements.