Although growing plants take CO2 out of the atmosphere, Warmists believe that this is not happening fast enough to overcome the new carbon we're belching into the atmosphere. Hence, the need for non-natural sequestratiopn and/or screening technology.
If anthropogenic global warming is not only real but as apocalyptic as its proponents claim, we will not only have to go nuclear but we will have to geoengineer our way out of it. None of the processes outlined in this article, like spraying high-albedo compounds into the upper atmosphere, can run away. We can implement a method to the point where we start to get observable effects, and then back off if problems develop. In other words, we need to be as adventurous and willing to assume large-scale risk now as we were when we ran the Manhattan Project.
To put it another way: the greenhouse effect, if it is actually happening, is already a form of geoengineering. It is making cold countries warm. If it's going too far, the geoengineering steps in this article are what it might take to arrive at the stable, human-based optimum we want for our long-term survival.
"renewables, nuclear reactors and power plants that use emissions-capture technology needs to triple in order keep climate change within safe limits."
To make 'renewables' a significant part of the equation you have to include projects like Glen Canyon, Foz do Iguaçu and Three Gorges - remember, the technology that all the folk singers loved to whine about before the first atom split. And the cost of capturing the carbon that coal (essentially pure carbon) emits os so high that we might as well spend the same money on a few hundred reactor starts.
The other step we will absolutely have to take if AGW is as bad as Warmists are hoping is geoengineering to sequester carbon already in the atmosphere and oceans. This means projects like iron-seeding large enough areas of ocean over abyssal depths that algal blooms will pull significant amounts of carbon to the bottom.
But Apple's contribution to FOSS has been to provide an operating system that is Unix-based. Open a 'terminal window' on any of its computers and you have the real Unix command line to play with. Not locked-down Windows or flavor-of-the-week Linux, but the same consistent Unix on every machine.
I have driven across Germany on the autobahn and yes, flashing lights and tailgating at drivers who stay subsonic is standard procedure, and not targeted by police. I've even seen the occasional non-BMW driver do it,
" They tend to distract the driver with bullshit concerns about drifting into the car in the next lane while the driver is moving over next to the line to avoid some jackass who's drifting over the line on the other side. The passenger doesn't have to be in tune with what the cars around them are doing, so they almost never are. The driver does have to."
He would be a columnist for Huffington Post. Post-apocalypse, the Post would operate as a broadsheet until the geeks could get computer technology going again.
Hollywood people in a fundamental way don't 'do' science, which is why it's so easy to pull them into any sort of Luddite anti-science cause. With no critical tools to evaluate science claims made by someone producing a film, they can be made to serve that person's cause by use of the appropriate political button-pushing phraseology.
I can imagine these actors being told that the film would be "a bold initiative against heliocentric privilege exercised by an unshielded, cancer-causing fusion reactor in Earth's vicinity."
And by clicking the EgoBoost (tm) button in the app, you can give yourself the penis you always wanted, including one that never existed in the first place, while you're at it.
As if any actual NSA target of interest is going to google bomb-making information, email other members of their sleeper cell, or update their subscription to Inspire magazine while actually ON a flight.
The black market in this case, as in all the others, is the real market. San Francisco's overpaid and underworked bureaucrats need to die in a fire. Get out of the way and let better bus service bloom, Uber cars replace medallion taxis, and well-paid geeks with the income to support real historical preservation replace those hopeless, smelly street people whose contribution to their fair city is, so far as I can, mostly in the form of graffiti and vomit.
My second computer was a 360. I began life coding Fortran IV on one of the 360's immediate predecessors, the IBM 1410. At the time, mainframes occupied two distinct categories: "business" machines like the 1410, which organized data as individual 6-bit bytes, and "scientific" mainframes like the 7090 series, which saw data as 32-bit integers and floats. Most programming as done in machine-dependent assemblers, which were totally different on each machine.
The 360 merged the two styles of computing. Memory was now organized as 8-bit bytes acted on by a single instruction set. You could address individual bytes, pairs of bytes as short integers, blocks of 4 as long integers or floats, or blocks of 8 as long floats. Not only was it easier to port existing languages like Fortran to this single architecture, but IBM's own new language, PL/I, became everyone's new language of choice on mainframes.
Mainframes were still huge and expensive, internal memory still took the form of iron rings, one per bit, strung into grids of wire by hand, and moist software was still a batch operation pulling its data from an "input tape" and writing to an "output tape", but with System/360 the way to the future was clear. I'll never forget the arrival of our first disk drive, the IBM 2311. It was the size and shape of a top-loader washing machine and held two million bytes of randomly accessible data. Clearly the millennium had come early for us as we dreamed of databases that could use such vast quantities of data.
The tobacco plant seems to be especially suited to being engineered to produce medications. As we extend GM tobacco to knock out more diseases, it will thus indirectly be beneficial in eliminating superstitious idiots from the gene pool
So if we take the opposite approach, we run Internet service as slow and rickety DSL (which is highly dependent on distance from the telco switch) over the POTS copper. Which would you really prefer?
If JSTOR is disseminating public-domain papers and just charges the cost of hosting them for downloaders, what was it afraid that Swartz would actually do with the trove of downloaded papers? Had he gone set up his own database and website, it would have incurred costs similar to JSTOR, and so Swartz would have charge about the same to keep it running.
If Swartz' bulk downloading was crashing the site, why doesn't JSTOR just teergrube its download process. Imposing a one-second delay at the start of each downloaded paper would not be noticeable to the ordinary user, but would have prevented Swartz from overloading the system by downloading huge blocks of data at one time.
Relax, buddy. You'll still be able to get shade-grown telephones, artisanally made by peasants. They will just be connected to SIP now, rather than the old network of dedicated copper.
Looking for quake-destroyed houses, and beating people they found cowering in their yards to death. After all, they were now homeless and a California jury has ruled them fair game. Watch for the hilarious videos on YouTube.
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Yes, multi-generation debt is totally illegal in the private sector. For evil of this mind-numbing intensity, you need a government.
Although growing plants take CO2 out of the atmosphere, Warmists believe that this is not happening fast enough to overcome the new carbon we're belching into the atmosphere. Hence, the need for non-natural sequestratiopn and/or screening technology.
No, you don't get to have it both ways.
If anthropogenic global warming is not only real but as apocalyptic as its proponents claim, we will not only have to go nuclear but we will have to geoengineer our way out of it. None of the processes outlined in this article, like spraying high-albedo compounds into the upper atmosphere, can run away. We can implement a method to the point where we start to get observable effects, and then back off if problems develop. In other words, we need to be as adventurous and willing to assume large-scale risk now as we were when we ran the Manhattan Project.
To put it another way: the greenhouse effect, if it is actually happening, is already a form of geoengineering. It is making cold countries warm. If it's going too far, the geoengineering steps in this article are what it might take to arrive at the stable, human-based optimum we want for our long-term survival.
"renewables, nuclear reactors and power plants that use emissions-capture technology needs to triple in order keep climate change within safe limits."
To make 'renewables' a significant part of the equation you have to include projects like Glen Canyon, Foz do Iguaçu and Three Gorges - remember, the technology that all the folk singers loved to whine about before the first atom split. And the cost of capturing the carbon that coal (essentially pure carbon) emits os so high that we might as well spend the same money on a few hundred reactor starts.
The other step we will absolutely have to take if AGW is as bad as Warmists are hoping is geoengineering to sequester carbon already in the atmosphere and oceans. This means projects like iron-seeding large enough areas of ocean over abyssal depths that algal blooms will pull significant amounts of carbon to the bottom.
But Apple's contribution to FOSS has been to provide an operating system that is Unix-based. Open a 'terminal window' on any of its computers and you have the real Unix command line to play with. Not locked-down Windows or flavor-of-the-week Linux, but the same consistent Unix on every machine.
I have driven across Germany on the autobahn and yes, flashing lights and tailgating at drivers who stay subsonic is standard procedure, and not targeted by police. I've even seen the occasional non-BMW driver do it,
Yes, you can now get exactly that machine!
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" They tend to distract the driver with bullshit concerns about drifting into the car in the next lane while the driver is moving over next to the line to avoid some jackass who's drifting over the line on the other side. The passenger doesn't have to be in tune with what the cars around them are doing, so they almost never are. The driver does have to."
Yes, I've been married that long too.
There have been some fishy extraditions over the years, but the world is better off with these guys out of circulation.
Now we need to find the CrypoLocker perpetrators, and "render" them to a Brazilian favela.
The federosaurus: all hat and, as we saw today in Nevada, no cattle.
He would be a columnist for Huffington Post. Post-apocalypse, the Post would operate as a broadsheet until the geeks could get computer technology going again.
Hollywood people in a fundamental way don't 'do' science, which is why it's so easy to pull them into any sort of Luddite anti-science cause. With no critical tools to evaluate science claims made by someone producing a film, they can be made to serve that person's cause by use of the appropriate political button-pushing phraseology.
I can imagine these actors being told that the film would be "a bold initiative against heliocentric privilege exercised by an unshielded, cancer-causing fusion reactor in Earth's vicinity."
...It is only natural that they abolish the after-work email.
And by clicking the EgoBoost (tm) button in the app, you can give yourself the penis you always wanted, including one that never existed in the first place, while you're at it.
As if any actual NSA target of interest is going to google bomb-making information, email other members of their sleeper cell, or update their subscription to Inspire magazine while actually ON a flight.
The black market in this case, as in all the others, is the real market. San Francisco's overpaid and underworked bureaucrats need to die in a fire. Get out of the way and let better bus service bloom, Uber cars replace medallion taxis, and well-paid geeks with the income to support real historical preservation replace those hopeless, smelly street people whose contribution to their fair city is, so far as I can, mostly in the form of graffiti and vomit.
You mean 'bated breath'. Baited breath is what you get from eating fish.
My second computer was a 360. I began life coding Fortran IV on one of the 360's immediate predecessors, the IBM 1410. At the time, mainframes occupied two distinct categories: "business" machines like the 1410, which organized data as individual 6-bit bytes, and "scientific" mainframes like the 7090 series, which saw data as 32-bit integers and floats. Most programming as done in machine-dependent assemblers, which were totally different on each machine.
The 360 merged the two styles of computing. Memory was now organized as 8-bit bytes acted on by a single instruction set. You could address individual bytes, pairs of bytes as short integers, blocks of 4 as long integers or floats, or blocks of 8 as long floats. Not only was it easier to port existing languages like Fortran to this single architecture, but IBM's own new language, PL/I, became everyone's new language of choice on mainframes.
Mainframes were still huge and expensive, internal memory still took the form of iron rings, one per bit, strung into grids of wire by hand, and moist software was still a batch operation pulling its data from an "input tape" and writing to an "output tape", but with System/360 the way to the future was clear. I'll never forget the arrival of our first disk drive, the IBM 2311. It was the size and shape of a top-loader washing machine and held two million bytes of randomly accessible data. Clearly the millennium had come early for us as we dreamed of databases that could use such vast quantities of data.
"OK Contacts: Record!"
The tobacco plant seems to be especially suited to being engineered to produce medications. As we extend GM tobacco to knock out more diseases, it will thus indirectly be beneficial in eliminating superstitious idiots from the gene pool
So if we take the opposite approach, we run Internet service as slow and rickety DSL (which is highly dependent on distance from the telco switch) over the POTS copper. Which would you really prefer?
And from JMW Turner, we learn that Mt Toba was in continuous eruption during Victorian times.
If JSTOR is disseminating public-domain papers and just charges the cost of hosting them for downloaders, what was it afraid that Swartz would actually do with the trove of downloaded papers? Had he gone set up his own database and website, it would have incurred costs similar to JSTOR, and so Swartz would have charge about the same to keep it running.
If Swartz' bulk downloading was crashing the site, why doesn't JSTOR just teergrube its download process. Imposing a one-second delay at the start of each downloaded paper would not be noticeable to the ordinary user, but would have prevented Swartz from overloading the system by downloading huge blocks of data at one time.
Relax, buddy. You'll still be able to get shade-grown telephones, artisanally made by peasants. They will just be connected to SIP now, rather than the old network of dedicated copper.
Looking for quake-destroyed houses, and beating people they found cowering in their yards to death. After all, they were now homeless and a California jury has ruled them fair game. Watch for the hilarious videos on YouTube.