A decade or two ago my Boss bought the domain poiuyt.com It was absolutely amazing how many times a website's registration confirmation Emails came to poiuyt.com's default account with the password qwerty. I got access to a lot of porn that other people paid for too.
Don't worry, Windows 10 has an option to use a strong secure 4 digit PIN number instead of a weak 8 alpha-numeric characters consisting of upper, lower case letters, numbers and at least one special character! Microsoft has saved us from the horrors of passwords like P@$$W0rd and Qwerty1! and has lead us to the Brave New World, we hail our new overlords of 1234 and 7777! We'll all be saved by Samsonite's random number generator.
I'm just saying that full time is a nice round 2,000 hrs, it makes it easy to do the math in your head; if you need 4,000 manhours, that is equivalent to two people. Additionally under AHA, Obamacare, fulltime employee are determined by taking the total manhours worked and dividing by 30 so 30 hours a week is fulltime too.
When a burger flipper starts getting $15.00/hr, what do you think my skills are going to cost you? Right now I'm only making 3 times minimum wage, if minimum wage doubles, so will mine, sooner or later and a lot of people think that way. Oh yeah and Business owners are going to want to keep wages at 20% of revenues so you know what that's going to do to the price of a burger, that $6.75 meal deal will go up to $8.45.
My understanding is the combines now start in southern Oklahoma head north and stop in central Saskatchewan, priced just a little less than the Farmers could do it themselves. AgServices is a growth industry and yes John Deere is working on robotics, especially on the tractors that haul the harvested grain between the combine in the field and the truck that hauls the grain to the elevator.
So then it will only replace 9 out of 10 positions at a McDonalds and one lucky employee will get to keep his job so he can clean puke and shit and that's about it
Obamacare, lumps all of the franchises owned by a single person together, so you'll have to get them health insurance too. Schultz our local McDonalds franchise owner own 5 restaurants and I don’t think that's unusual.
Also your math is a bit fuzzy, most workers work 40 hrs/week * 50 weeks/year for 2,000 hours, so a $15.00/hr get $30K/yr gross and probably is a $60K/year expense; dropping one worker across 2 shifts saves $120K/year amortized over 5 years the break-even is about $600K per robot! So at $35K per robot, they couldn't make them fast enough,
OKay when I put my hot sweaty highly conductive hands on an electrical sensor and it agrees with what I feel physiologically, vs. an optical sensor trying to detect doppler shifts in blood capillaries while bouncing around on a wrist band while I'm bouncing on a treadmill that gives a reading that doesn't agree with what I'm feeling physiologically, I'm going with the electrical.
Very little CO2 is taken out of the atmosphere by photosynthesis
The IPCC AR4 [skepticalscience.com] seems to think that photosynthesis is very significant in the atmospheric CO2 equilibrium, vegetation and land absorbing 57%.
Absorbing 57%. And emitting more or less 57% when it rots. Yes, plants are important in atmospheric CO2 equilibrium -- the point is that we are not in equilibrium.
432/(29+432+332) = 55% emission, not 57%. Your assumption is when then dead vegetative matter decomposed, the Gross Primary Production will be the same years, decades and centuries in the future. My assumption is because Gross Primary Production is increasing now because of increased CO2, it is more likely to continue to increase in the future than it is to remain the same or decrease. Furthermore I assume that as the conditions that cause the increase continue the response to the increase is likely to diminish.
I got a fitbit ChargeHR (Christmas present) I wear the device pretty regularly and while exercising and my experience is the pulse readings during exercise is highly suspect. When I'm on the treadmill the ChargeHR frequently reads 10-30 bpm higher than the treadmill sensors. Fitbit is not a medical-grade device, if you need that level of accuracy for health reasons, don't get a fitbit.
Steps and stairs are measured by motion sensors on your arm, so accuracy varies there too; don't bet money on it, you can easily game the results. The software can be a bit glitchy and firmware updates seem to fail on a regular basis, so their tech support is really good at talking you therought as they've had lots of practice.
If your looking for something to get you thinking about how much you are or aren't moving or exercising relative to how much you weren't before, that's more in line with fitbits capabilities.. My suspicion is fitbit isn't really much better or worse than it's competitors.
The point I was trying to make is the biosphere really is greening up, it seems plausible that an unrecognised trigger-point was passed as atmospheric CO2 increased to the neighborhood of 400ppm and the response was a lot more plants growing in the Sahel, the Amazon basin, the tropical Pacific and Atlantic; and the calculus regarding what adding CO2 to the atmosphere does and how the addition effects the atmospheric equilibrium has changed.
I will agree that most commercially grown Hot-House "fresh" vegetables are Blah, and I believe it's mainly due to a combinations of mainly picked-green and ripened en route and being grown in high CO2 atmospheres.
I'm usually called a climate denier, but the truth is our present biota is more than capable of turning all but round-off error of plant material back into either other plant material or atmospheric gasses on land. Now elemental carbon is pretty much sequestered for millennia if not forever Terra preta is how you really sequester carbon on land. In the oceans, photo-plankton which grows by metabolising CO2, dying and sinking into the abyss and sequestering the CO2.
You're confusing two different things -- Fourier and Arrhenius (and everyone else) say that there is a logarithmic relationship between the increase in CO2 concentration and the increase in temperature.
This paper (as do many others) claims that there is a (near) linear relationship between emissions and temperature.
That's because doubling the amount we emit will more than double the atmospheric concentration, as the oceans will be taking up a smaller part of what we emit. Look for articles that talk about the TCRE "transient climate response to cumulative carbon emissions", e.g. Le Duc et al 2015
So they are saying that since the atmosphere contains over 2,996×10^9 tonnes of CO2, adding an addition 29*10^9 tonnes of CO2 will cause the atmosphere to contain over 6,000 *10^9 tonnes? I think you are grossly underestimating increased primary production; CO2 is a fertilizer, not a growth imhibitor.
It's not about cost, it's about value. I use a chemical that costs $65,000.00/gal, why because that's what it's value to me is. I really see a point in the not too distant future where petro-chemicals will be too precious to use for commodity products like fuel.
They are also basing their claim on simple linear models, not the current CMIP5 simulations; which basically says, "our peers thought so little of our grant proposal, we didn't get funding for real computer time."
Firstly, "Purchase article full text and PDF $32", fuck that shit, if those whoremongers really believed that my actions was going to destroy the world their Greatgrandchildern need to live in, they would be paying me to read it!
Secondly,
An approximately linear relationship between global warming and cumulative CO2 emissions is known to hold up to 2 EgC emissions on decadal to centennial timescales7, 8, 9, 10, 11; however, in some simple climate models the predicted warming at higher cumulative emissions is less than that predicted by such a linear relationship8. The climate response to five trillion tonnes of carbon
if the quantity of carbonic acid [CO2] increases in geometric progression, the augmentation of the temperature will increase nearly in arithmetic progression.Svante Arrhenius
These guys are claiming the entire body of Climatological "Settled Science" is wrong and they are just throwing it out there like a bunch of assholes trolling click-bait; at least on Facebook the click-bait trolls give you some side-boob or camel-toed yoga-pants.
Well first google only deleted the search-engine link to the post, not the post. The author can file a counter-claim with Google to have the link put back. Since the person alleged to have violated the copyright is a British Subject, living in England, the only company logically benefiting from the allegedly false claim of copyright violation is a British company, BuildTeam, located in England and any legal action under the American DMCA would have to take place in the US; most likely a counter-claim would bring a screeching halt to these shenanigans. Even if BuildTeam won a default judgement in the US how would they ever collect?
Given the dismal approval ratings for both Trump and Clinton, a serious 3rd party is now a possibility. As a Libertarian leaning constitutional conservative, I have an innate distrust of the BIG THREE big Government, big business and big religion. If the Tea party didn't have the Evangelicals buried so far up their asses, they might turn into a real political party that I could support. On the other hand since Trump is 69 and Hildebeast is 68 and they are running for a job that turns calender years into dog years, who's running for Vice President may be most important.
Oh certainly the plant is protected by numerous firewalls and VPNs between it and the internet, each windows 10 workstation, and windows server 2016 is professionally configured and have all of the necessary security patches installed and anitvirus software installed; so the short answer would have to be only during daylight hours.
My suspicion is that birds that populate the desert are much more likely to be endangered or threatened than the typical starlings and grackles hit by cars.
Now if the fucking morons could stop equating a loan guarantee with money out of the pocket we'd be able to have a reasonable discussion.
Your right, A loan guarantee only costs us if it "Crashes and Burns", the apparent the computer or hardware glitch that misaligned the mirrors counts as a Crash and the fire counts as a Burn so the Magic Eight Ball says "Outlook not good".
For a "Renewable" energy project that uses so much Natural gas that they are now require to sign-up for Cap-and-Trade under California law to offset their CO2 emissions!
The Ivanpah plant in the Mojave Desert uses natural gas as a supplementary fuel. Data from the California Energy Commission show that the plant burned enough natural gas in 2014 – its first year of operation – to emit more than 46,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide.
That’s nearly twice the pollution threshold for power plants or factories in California to be required to participate in the state’s cap-and-trade program to reduce carbon emissions. SOLAR POWER: Desert plant has pollution problem
Doesn't that really defeat the whole purpose? Well it does unless the purpose is to put a fuckton of money into some contractor's pockets.
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A decade or two ago my Boss bought the domain poiuyt.com It was absolutely amazing how many times a website's registration confirmation Emails came to poiuyt.com's default account with the password qwerty. I got access to a lot of porn that other people paid for too.
Don't worry, Windows 10 has an option to use a strong secure 4 digit PIN number instead of a weak 8 alpha-numeric characters consisting of upper, lower case letters, numbers and at least one special character! Microsoft has saved us from the horrors of passwords like P@$$W0rd and Qwerty1! and has lead us to the Brave New World, we hail our new overlords of 1234 and 7777! We'll all be saved by Samsonite's random number generator.
I'm just saying that full time is a nice round 2,000 hrs, it makes it easy to do the math in your head; if you need 4,000 manhours, that is equivalent to two people. Additionally under AHA, Obamacare, fulltime employee are determined by taking the total manhours worked and dividing by 30 so 30 hours a week is fulltime too.
When a burger flipper starts getting $15.00/hr, what do you think my skills are going to cost you? Right now I'm only making 3 times minimum wage, if minimum wage doubles, so will mine, sooner or later and a lot of people think that way. Oh yeah and Business owners are going to want to keep wages at 20% of revenues so you know what that's going to do to the price of a burger, that $6.75 meal deal will go up to $8.45.
My understanding is the combines now start in southern Oklahoma head north and stop in central Saskatchewan, priced just a little less than the Farmers could do it themselves. AgServices is a growth industry and yes John Deere is working on robotics, especially on the tractors that haul the harvested grain between the combine in the field and the truck that hauls the grain to the elevator.
So then it will only replace 9 out of 10 positions at a McDonalds and one lucky employee will get to keep his job so he can clean puke and shit and that's about it
He used to be the manager!
Obamacare, lumps all of the franchises owned by a single person together, so you'll have to get them health insurance too. Schultz our local McDonalds franchise owner own 5 restaurants and I don’t think that's unusual.
Also your math is a bit fuzzy, most workers work 40 hrs/week * 50 weeks/year for 2,000 hours, so a $15.00/hr get $30K/yr gross and probably is a $60K/year expense; dropping one worker across 2 shifts saves $120K/year amortized over 5 years the break-even is about $600K per robot!
So at $35K per robot, they couldn't make them fast enough,
OKay when I put my hot sweaty highly conductive hands on an electrical sensor and it agrees with what I feel physiologically, vs. an optical sensor trying to detect doppler shifts in blood capillaries while bouncing around on a wrist band while
I'm bouncing on a treadmill that gives a reading that doesn't agree with what I'm feeling physiologically, I'm going with the electrical.
Very little CO2 is taken out of the atmosphere by photosynthesis
The IPCC AR4 [skepticalscience.com] seems to think that photosynthesis is very significant in the atmospheric CO2 equilibrium, vegetation and land absorbing 57%.
Absorbing 57%. And emitting more or less 57% when it rots.
Yes, plants are important in atmospheric CO2 equilibrium -- the point is that we are not in equilibrium.
432/(29+432+332) = 55% emission, not 57%. Your assumption is when then dead vegetative matter decomposed, the Gross Primary Production will be the same years, decades and centuries in the future. My assumption is because Gross Primary Production is increasing now because of increased CO2, it is more likely to continue to increase in the future than it is to remain the same or decrease. Furthermore I assume that as the conditions that cause the increase continue the response to the increase is likely to diminish.
I got a fitbit ChargeHR (Christmas present) I wear the device pretty regularly and while exercising and my experience is the pulse readings during exercise is highly suspect. When I'm on the treadmill the ChargeHR frequently reads 10-30 bpm higher than the treadmill sensors. Fitbit is not a medical-grade device, if you need that level of accuracy for health reasons, don't get a fitbit.
Steps and stairs are measured by motion sensors on your arm, so accuracy varies there too; don't bet money on it, you can easily game the results.
The software can be a bit glitchy and firmware updates seem to fail on a regular basis, so their tech support is really good at talking you therought as they've had lots of practice.
If your looking for something to get you thinking about how much you are or aren't moving or exercising relative to how much you weren't before, that's more in line with fitbits capabilities.. My suspicion is fitbit isn't really much better or worse than it's competitors.
The IPCC AR4 seems to think that photosynthesis is very significant in the atmospheric CO2 equilibrium, vegetation and land absorbing 57%.
The point I was trying to make is the biosphere really is greening up, it seems plausible that an unrecognised trigger-point was passed as atmospheric CO2 increased to the neighborhood of 400ppm and the response was a lot more plants growing in the Sahel, the Amazon basin, the tropical Pacific and Atlantic; and the calculus regarding what adding CO2 to the atmosphere does and how the addition effects the atmospheric equilibrium has changed.
I will agree that most commercially grown Hot-House "fresh" vegetables are Blah, and I believe it's mainly due to a combinations of mainly picked-green and ripened en route and being grown in high CO2 atmospheres.
Carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation in 2015 were lowest since 1993 and Projected growth in CO2 emissions driven by countries outside the OECD so at best your preaching to the choir.
I don't know where the heck you saw this claim: citation needed.
Your not one of the 500M, please proceed quietly to the nearest recycling center.
I'm usually called a climate denier, but the truth is our present biota is more than capable of turning all but round-off error of plant material back into either other plant material or atmospheric gasses on land. Now elemental carbon is pretty much sequestered for millennia if not forever Terra preta is how you really sequester carbon on land. In the oceans, photo-plankton which grows by metabolising CO2, dying and sinking into the abyss and sequestering the CO2.
You're confusing two different things -- Fourier and Arrhenius (and everyone else) say that there is a logarithmic relationship between the increase in CO2 concentration and the increase in temperature.
This paper (as do many others) claims that there is a (near) linear relationship between emissions and temperature.
That's because doubling the amount we emit will more than double the atmospheric concentration, as the oceans will be taking up a smaller part of what we emit. Look for articles that talk about the TCRE "transient climate response to cumulative carbon emissions", e.g. Le Duc et al 2015
So they are saying that since the atmosphere contains over 2,996×10^9 tonnes of CO2, adding an addition 29*10^9 tonnes of CO2 will cause the atmosphere to contain over 6,000 *10^9 tonnes? I think you are grossly underestimating increased primary production; CO2 is a fertilizer, not a growth imhibitor.
It's not about cost, it's about value. I use a chemical that costs $65,000.00/gal, why because that's what it's value to me is. I really see a point in the not too distant future where petro-chemicals will be too precious to use for commodity products like fuel.
They are also basing their claim on simple linear models, not the current CMIP5 simulations; which basically says, "our peers thought so little of our grant proposal, we didn't get funding for real computer time."
Firstly, "Purchase article full text and PDF $32", fuck that shit, if those whoremongers really believed that my actions was going to destroy the world their Greatgrandchildern need to live in, they would be paying me to read it!
Secondly,
Every other modeler since Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, and especialy Svante Arrhenius uses logarithmic relationship
These guys are claiming the entire body of Climatological "Settled Science" is wrong and they are just throwing it out there like a bunch of assholes trolling click-bait; at least on Facebook the click-bait trolls give you some side-boob or camel-toed yoga-pants.
Well first google only deleted the search-engine link to the post, not the post. The author can file a counter-claim with Google to have the link put back. Since the person alleged to have violated the copyright is a British Subject, living in England, the only company logically benefiting from the allegedly false claim of copyright violation is a British company, BuildTeam, located in England and any legal action under the American DMCA would have to take place in the US; most likely a counter-claim would bring a screeching halt to these shenanigans. Even if BuildTeam won a default judgement in the US how would they ever collect?
Given the dismal approval ratings for both Trump and Clinton, a serious 3rd party is now a possibility. As a Libertarian leaning constitutional conservative, I have an innate distrust of the BIG THREE big Government, big business and big religion. If the Tea party didn't have the Evangelicals buried so far up their asses, they might turn into a real political party that I could support. On the other hand since Trump is 69 and Hildebeast is 68 and they are running for a job that turns calender years into dog years, who's running for Vice President may be most important.
Oh certainly the plant is protected by numerous firewalls and VPNs between it and the internet, each windows 10 workstation, and windows server 2016 is professionally configured and have all of the necessary security patches installed and anitvirus software installed; so the short answer would have to be only during daylight hours.
My suspicion is that birds that populate the desert are much more likely to be endangered or threatened than the typical starlings and grackles hit by cars.
You forgot that they'll have to sign-up for Cap and Trade under California law, so they can buy carbon offsets, to make their "renewable" energy.
Now if the fucking morons could stop equating a loan guarantee with money out of the pocket we'd be able to have a reasonable discussion.
Your right, A loan guarantee only costs us if it "Crashes and Burns", the apparent the computer or hardware glitch that misaligned the mirrors counts as a Crash and the fire counts as a Burn so the Magic Eight Ball says "Outlook not good".
For a "Renewable" energy project that uses so much Natural gas that they are now require to sign-up for Cap-and-Trade under California law to offset their CO2 emissions!
Doesn't that really defeat the whole purpose? Well it does unless the purpose is to put a fuckton of money into some contractor's pockets.