The White House is full of Politicians, what do you expect from Politicians (or Politicians playing Scientists on TV)? Just as there is truth in Religion, there is truth in politics (meaning the truth is absolute, and not up for examination).
Now if a lie (or carefully selected data) had come from Scientists, that's another matter. There is no truth in Science (unlike politics, Science is always up for examination).
If Environmental Science is not open for examination. It would not be science, it would be politics or religion.
Politics is about building a consensus, and when the consensus is built. Then there is truth. The political truth is not open for examination. The political consensus is truth. It is an absolute upon which all parties agree.
If you are not happy with the consensus, perhaps you should have been a contributor to the consensus. Instead of screaming "She's a Witch... Burn the Witch" from the sidelines.
i think you're confusing evolution with natural selection.
Natural Selection is just a single piece of (the grand unifying theory) of Evolution.
I can't recall all of it, but the other pieces are: Vast amount of time (evolution has been in action millions of years). Genetics are responsible for physical traits, Genetics are subject to slight variation, genetic traits are heritable (you look and act like your parents), traits can cause increased/decreased survivability of the genetic line (natural selection).
Besides, our society tells us not to engage in altruistic behavior.
That's probably a cultural thing for your regional culture.
I live in a semi-remote area of Northern California. In my regional culture, if my car breaks down out here, I'm sure to have lots of people stop to help. Not just people who recognize me. And you don't even have to be a cute girl (I'm a raspy middle age dude driving a junker air-cooled beetle).
They are also quickly becoming the most hated because of it.
Oh no, I totally disagree...
We've been the most hated people in the world retro-active back to the beginning of time.
The US is full of all the folks who were hated all over the world, and managed to escape their tormentors and gathered in North America.
Of course the Aboriginal North Americans hated us too. But they did not have sufficient organizational skills and technology to match that of us the hated fugitives.
But all that hatred has instilled in us a tolerance of each others political or religious sensitivities.
So we are quite content to be hated by those who hate us. And we are quite content because we share a tolerance of each others views. To behave otherwise (than tolerant), would be well... down-right un-American.
I know that his organization is listed as "nonprofit", but that doesn't exclude its management from cutting themselves fantastic salaries
My landladies ex was the CEO of a NPO (Non-Profit Organization). That was his career his whole life. They lived in a really really nice area on his NPO salary.
She told me "Running a NPO can be pretty profitable".
Yeah, and that's why I really hated giving up the analog phone. It is crystal clear. And you can talk from just about anywhere except really deep canyons (Sierra Nevada Foothills). I live in a remote area in Eldorado County, and the new digital phone has almost no connectivity outside of Sacramento-Folsom. I use the new digital phone as a replacement to the pager at work.
I spend an average of 30 minutes a month on the phone
I have the same idea about phones, only about 30 minutes a month. When I finally switched from my old "big bag" analog phone (jus in March), I went for T-Mobile minutes only. I bought a RAZR for $160, and 1000 minutes for $100. I used about ~300 minutes in the first month, but dropped down a lot since then. What I like, is the flat rate ten cents a minute. So the first month was about $30, but much lower since. It's a lot less than $40 per month... Just my ten cents...
I would imagine they had a "complete backup solution". So simple anyone who could drive a mouse could do backups.
Then they found someone who could drive a mouse. And that someone could click on "do backup". And the magically complete fully integrated all comprehensive patented backup solution provided a nice friendly reassuring pop-up window that said something like "Your computer is protected".
Instead of browsing the log files, or even scripting the browsing of the log files. The mouse driver went back to making very nice power point presentations that showed off their fantastically technical prowess.
As a break from electronics, I worked in agriculture for three years 13 years ago. Now that my kids are teen-agers, I can travel without being a huge burden on the wife. I've been trying to get back out of doors. And electronics is increasing in it's flight from the US.
The demand growth in the US has several causes. The number of college Students into sciences is down. The majority of Geologists are older, and retiring. The amount of environmental cleanup/monitoring/planning work increases with government regulations. Not only existing environmental issues, but growth. Increased demand for fuel oil, coal, uranium. Increased demand for raw materials such as clay, gravel, base metals, precious metals. Go checkout geology.com.
did the ground below just sank/moved suddenly (25 square miles no less)?
Yes, the same thing happened a few weeks ago in the Solomon Islands. In an earth quake, a tectonic plate under one of the islands was thrust up ten or twelve feet.
Remember the tsunami a year and a half ago? There, an under water fault thrust up a tectonic plate just a few feet, but several miles long. That was the cause of the tsunami.
Go take a geology course at your local college (Junior College?). I did that last semester and loved it. I'm thinking about changing from Electronics to Geology. It's outside work, it pays pretty well, and there's actually a growing demand... And I'm getting really tired of computers kicking my ass on a daily basis.
An estimated 17,000 tons of mercury was dumped into California water ways in the gold rush (1850 - 1930). It don't seem like much of a waste land to me.
Yeah, but that's where we reached the reasonable speed limit of the current technology. We can go faster, but the cost is too much power/heat. Too much heat causes reduced life of the silicon.
Something else had to happen, that was multi core CPUs.
In the future, if we find faster transistor technology, the speed race will resume.
Well it's kind of a bell curve ya know... All US citizens fit in there somewhere. Some on the left, some on the right, some in the middle.
US politics may not fit your country's politics, but you might want to respect the right of others to have their own political beliefs.
I have the opinion that most people in the US came here precisely because they did not want to be in Europe/Mexico/where-ever. So if people in the US have a different political, social, religious beliefs. Perhaps you should be happy that we are practicing our political / social / religious beliefs somewhere across the ocean where it does not affect you.
If we were practicing our political/social/religious beliefs too close to you, it might lead to political/social/religious war.
It was always 18 months. Looking at transistor speed and density (number of X-istors per cm2), Moore observed that it looks like we are doubling the density, and doubling the speed every 18 months.
We're also not paying US$800 for a 80387 math co-processor (only did floating point). Like a friend of mine did in the 80's. That would be about $US1,600 in today's dollars.
No, your mouse finger does not grow. You have a slightly different genetic makeup from me. If your genetic variation (mouse finger length) causes your off-spring to have a better chance of surviving to reproductive age (and actually reproducing), then your genetic line will be stronger than mine, and the population as a whole will tend to have slightly longer fingers.
If longer fingers means better chance of survival, this trend for increasing mouse finger length will continue.
If however, it is a sexual attractant alone, and sexual partners select mates with longer mouse fingers, to the point that finger length becomes so great as to hinder physical survival, this is a evolutionary dead end, and history is full of dead ends, it is estimated that 99% of all species that have ever lived, have become extinct. Saber tooth cats had teeth so long as to hinder eating... Hence two thousand pound lions no longer threaten humans with extinction.
Besides, there's a lot more stuff to eat in the ocean than there is in the trees. And the temperature is more stable year-round, just watch out for the predators...
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Well of course... That's the nature of the beast.
The White House is full of Politicians, what do you expect from Politicians (or Politicians playing Scientists on TV)? Just as there is truth in Religion, there is truth in politics (meaning the truth is absolute, and not up for examination).
Now if a lie (or carefully selected data) had come from Scientists, that's another matter. There is no truth in Science (unlike politics, Science is always up for examination).
If Environmental Science is not open for examination. It would not be science, it would be politics or religion.
Politics is about building a consensus, and when the consensus is built. Then there is truth. The political truth is not open for examination. The political consensus is truth. It is an absolute upon which all parties agree.
If you are not happy with the consensus, perhaps you should have been a contributor to the consensus. Instead of screaming "She's a Witch... Burn the Witch" from the sidelines.
i think you're confusing evolution with natural selection.
Natural Selection is just a single piece of (the grand unifying theory) of Evolution.
I can't recall all of it, but the other pieces are: Vast amount of time (evolution has been in action millions of years).
Genetics are responsible for physical traits, Genetics are subject to slight variation, genetic traits are heritable (you look and act like your parents), traits can cause increased/decreased survivability of the genetic line (natural selection).
Besides, our society tells us not to engage in altruistic behavior.
That's probably a cultural thing for your regional culture.
I live in a semi-remote area of Northern California. In my regional culture, if my car breaks down out here, I'm sure to have lots of people stop to help. Not just people who recognize me. And you don't even have to be a cute girl (I'm a raspy middle age dude driving a junker air-cooled beetle).
Although this seems to be a urban/rural thing.
He raped a woman.
He lied to the grand jury, and was convicted.
He sent the IRS after the victim and her husband.
His wife is currently a candidate for president.
She said "I don't remember", or "I plead the 5th", 127 times in a deposition about a fraud case.
The evidence in the fraud case "was found in the White House" one day after the statute of limitations ran out.
Beware, 2006 is going to be the worst hurricane season ever.
They are also quickly becoming the most hated because of it.
Oh no, I totally disagree...
We've been the most hated people in the world retro-active back to the beginning of time.
The US is full of all the folks who were hated all over the world, and managed to escape their tormentors and gathered in North America.
Of course the Aboriginal North Americans hated us too. But they did not have sufficient organizational skills and technology to match that of us the hated fugitives.
But all that hatred has instilled in us a tolerance of each others political or religious sensitivities.
So we are quite content to be hated by those who hate us. And we are quite content because we share a tolerance of each others views. To behave otherwise (than tolerant), would be well... down-right un-American.
Did your friends dad also explain that Louisiana is on a sinking tectonic plate?
http://geology.com/news/labels/Subsidence.html
Correlation does not equal causation.
The best history teachers I had were those who had little respect for the curriculum and deviated from it.
Sadly... Those were the ones who likely got the worst job performance reviews for not following orders from above.
I know that his organization is listed as "nonprofit", but that doesn't exclude its management from cutting themselves fantastic salaries
My landladies ex was the CEO of a NPO (Non-Profit Organization). That was his career his whole life. They lived in a really really nice area on his NPO salary.
She told me "Running a NPO can be pretty profitable".
the quality of service is a lot lower.
Yeah, and that's why I really hated giving up the analog phone. It is crystal clear. And you can talk from just about anywhere except really deep canyons (Sierra Nevada Foothills). I live in a remote area in Eldorado County, and the new digital phone has almost no connectivity outside of Sacramento-Folsom. I use the new digital phone as a replacement to the pager at work.
I spend an average of 30 minutes a month on the phone
I have the same idea about phones, only about 30 minutes a month. When I finally switched from my old "big bag" analog phone (jus in March), I went for T-Mobile minutes only. I bought a RAZR for $160, and 1000 minutes for $100. I used about ~300 minutes in the first month, but dropped down a lot since then. What I like, is the flat rate ten cents a minute. So the first month was about $30, but much lower since. It's a lot less than $40 per month... Just my ten cents...
I would imagine they had a "complete backup solution". So simple anyone who could drive a mouse could do backups.
Then they found someone who could drive a mouse. And that someone could click on "do backup". And the magically complete fully integrated all comprehensive patented backup solution provided a nice friendly reassuring pop-up window that said something like "Your computer is protected".
Instead of browsing the log files, or even scripting the browsing of the log files. The mouse driver went back to making very nice power point presentations that showed off their fantastically technical prowess.
As a break from electronics, I worked in agriculture for three years 13 years ago. Now that my kids are teen-agers, I can travel without being a huge burden on the wife. I've been trying to get back out of doors. And electronics is increasing in it's flight from the US.
The demand growth in the US has several causes. The number of college Students into sciences is down. The majority of Geologists are older, and retiring. The amount of environmental cleanup/monitoring/planning work increases with government regulations. Not only existing environmental issues, but growth. Increased demand for fuel oil, coal, uranium. Increased demand for raw materials such as clay, gravel, base metals, precious metals. Go checkout geology.com.
did the ground below just sank/moved suddenly (25 square miles no less)?
Yes, the same thing happened a few weeks ago in the Solomon Islands. In an earth quake, a tectonic plate under one of the islands was thrust up ten or twelve feet.
Remember the tsunami a year and a half ago? There, an under water fault thrust up a tectonic plate just a few feet, but several miles long. That was the cause of the tsunami.
Go take a geology course at your local college (Junior College?). I did that last semester and loved it. I'm thinking about changing from Electronics to Geology. It's outside work, it pays pretty well, and there's actually a growing demand... And I'm getting really tired of computers kicking my ass on a daily basis.
An estimated 17,000 tons of mercury was dumped into California water ways in the gold rush (1850 - 1930). It don't seem like much of a waste land to me.
First and most important: The case of a landfill in the US depositing dangerous leachate into a water supply has NEVER HAPPENED
This one is still in operation...
http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/rwqcb5/tentative/0703/ki efer/kiefer-buff.pdf
I was so--- hoping that you were going to find the "6000 gallons of drinking water" claim difficult to swallow... :)
On my command line: echo "0.009 / 6000" | bc -l
This returns 1.5 micro grams per gallon. I think someone above said something about nano grams...
Yes, in fact I am a UNIX geek.
Yeah, but that's where we reached the reasonable speed limit of the current technology. We can go faster, but the cost is too much power/heat. Too much heat causes reduced life of the silicon.
Something else had to happen, that was multi core CPUs.
In the future, if we find faster transistor technology, the speed race will resume.
Well it's kind of a bell curve ya know... All US citizens fit in there somewhere. Some on the left, some on the right, some in the middle.
US politics may not fit your country's politics, but you might want to respect the right of others to have their own political beliefs.
I have the opinion that most people in the US came here precisely because they did not want to be in Europe/Mexico/where-ever. So if people in the US have a different political, social, religious beliefs. Perhaps you should be happy that we are practicing our political / social / religious beliefs somewhere across the ocean where it does not affect you.
If we were practicing our political/social/religious beliefs too close to you, it might lead to political/social/religious war.
It was always 18 months. Looking at transistor speed and density (number of X-istors per cm2), Moore observed that it looks like we are doubling the density, and doubling the speed every 18 months.
We're also not paying US$800 for a 80387 math co-processor (only did floating point). Like a friend of mine did in the 80's. That would be about $US1,600 in today's dollars.
If longer fingers means better chance of survival, this trend for increasing mouse finger length will continue.
If however, it is a sexual attractant alone, and sexual partners select mates with longer mouse fingers, to the point that finger length becomes so great as to hinder physical survival, this is a evolutionary dead end, and history is full of dead ends, it is estimated that 99% of all species that have ever lived, have become extinct.
Saber tooth cats had teeth so long as to hinder eating... Hence two thousand pound lions no longer threaten humans with extinction.
Evolution is a grand unifying theory, bringing together the theories :
Life on earth has existed for vast amounts of time (650M years).
Genetic variations occur naturally in a population.
Genetic variations are heritable.
Some genetic variations are advantageous (cause increased sucessful reproduction).
There's more points, but I can't remember it all. I guess I'm de-selected from the gene pool...
--from Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos
Besides, there's a lot more stuff to eat in the ocean than there is in the trees. And the temperature is more stable year-round, just watch out for the predators...