In fact, hydrofracturing has been used in oil, natural gas, and even water production wells for may years. Ooh looky, wikipeida even has an entry on it!
Basically, this whole story is a lot of controversy over an effect that is known. Yes, hydrofracturing and introducing fluid in an area already seismically active is likely to trigger seismic events - but the size of these events is limited by the amount of accumulated strain in the bedrock, and will most likely be similar to the naturally-occurring events (or smaller).
But if they had "stored wealth" in their community by actually improving the infrastructure prior to the hurricane then there wouldn't have been a problem, now would there?
Was this an international trip? If not, according to what you stated above, he has no reason to file a CMIR even if he was carrying over $10,000. And if it was an international flight (and he was carrying over $10,000), it should be handled by customs, not by the TSA. TSA agents should be focused on preventing items and people from getting on flights that pose a direct threat to that flight.
So you hate them because they don't fight ALL your battles for you? This point of view never made any sense to me. You hate them with a passion because they do great good, fighting for our collective rights, but there is one area you are interested in that they do not actively fight for, so you hate them? Yeah... that makes sense.
The first ISP to provide free time on a good MMO and the bandwidth to enjoy it as part of the service just gets my respect.
Screw that. I don't want to have a portion of the money I'm paying for an internet connection going to some bullshit MMO that I'm never going to go near. How about we drop all the extra crap, and they just give me the internet connection I'm paying for? Cut out all the add-on bullshit I never use and offer it as a separate package.
These tie-ins and packages are becoming stupid. Every ISP (well, the big ones that actually own the networks, anyway) seems to be trying to emulate AOL from 15 years ago - instead of providing internet access (you know, what I give them money for) they throw in all this useless, self-branded crap that I'm never going to use. Cut my bill by $2 a month a drop the BS. If they want to offer bundled games and branded portals, etc., fine - but don't make that a standard part of the internet access I'm paying for. Hell, I don't even care if they give me an email address - I can't remember the last time I actually used the email address(es) provided by my ISP.
Also, the field has reversed itself (pointing in to the planet, allowing radiation in, rather than keeping it out) many times.
Well, you're right about there being records of many reversals, but wrong about the effect. A reversal does not result in the field "pointing into the planet, allowing radiation in...", it just means that the magnetic north and south poles reverse locations. Instead of charged particles being funneled to one pole by the magnetic field, they would be funneled to the other pole.
To be fair, the paper doesn't make the claim that the article and summary say it makes. The paper only claims that some of the secular variation observed in paleomagnetic and geomagnetic data may be the result of variations in the flow of ocean currents through the "primary" magnetic field. There is no claim that the ocean currents are responsible for this primary field. As seems all to common, the slashdot summary is wildly inaccurate - although in this case there is an excuse (sort of), as the linked article is also wildly inaccurate.
If you actually look at the paper (which is linked in the summary) you will see that it doesn't claim that the earth's magnetic field is generated by ocean currents, as reported by the summary and the linked article. They claim that SOME of the secular variation (changes in orientation and strength of the magnetic field observed at a point through time) is the result of changing circulation of the ocean currents through earth's primary magnetic field. This really isn't groundbreaking, as many (most) paleomagnetists and geomagnetists have considered the idea, but it does show that the effect can be significant. It might also explain some of the correlation between climate change and secular variation that has been observed in numerous records. Instead of the changes observed in the strength and orientation of the magnetic field being the cause (or related to the cause) of climate change, this suggests that they are more likely the indirect result of climate change - climate change affects ocean circulation, which in turn affects the total magnetic field at a given point.
That's correct. According to their theory, moons like Europa should have a rather strong magnetosphere.
If you look at the actual paper you will quickly notice that both the slashdot summary and the primary linked article are both inaccurate. They are not suggesting that the oceans create the primary magnetic field of the earth - in fact, in the paper's abstract it clearly states that the field they are discussing is the result of circulation of oceans through the primary magnetic field. So no, according to their theory Europa should not necessarily have a strong magnetic field; they are not claiming that ocean circulation alone is responsible for the earth's (or Europa's) magnetic field.
Removing the eject button was a good idea; it prevented you from ejecting a disk without unmounting it and ending up with corrupted date.
Removing the eject button was an idiotic idea, and it illustrates one of the great failures of personal computer design philosophy - the idea that the system builder/designer knows better than the user how the user should use the system. If I want to eject a disk in the middle of an operation then I should be able to - maybe the possibility of corruption is preferable to the alternative of letting an operation continue. Maybe an electrical fire just started in the system power supply, and I want to get my floppy out NOW. Maybe a million things that the designer didn't think of. The assumption that the user is an idiot and doesn't know what they are doing, and that their control over the system must be severely limited for their own protection, is the single worst PC design mistake.
Light pollution is generally considered the unnecessary lighting of the night sky. Wile some complain about things like unnecessary street lights, the main thrust (for most people) is working on shrouding area lights so they only light what is needed. For example, if you ever look at the lights at a stadium (where they are really only meant to be lighting the field), a huge amount of light is directed upwards, basically as leakage. Not only does this brighten the whole sky, it is a waste of a significant amount of energy - there really isn't a reason to light up the sky. In this case, light pollution could be significantly reduced by simply shrouding the tops of the lights (hell, use a mirrored surface to shroud them, and you increase the effective light output at the target for the same cost in energy).
For the most part, the anti-light pollution movement isn't about removing lights completely, it is about thinking through the orientation, placement, and design of lights to reduce needless leakage into the night sky. It is pollution when the light serves no useful purpose, or there is excessive leakage into non-target areas because of poor planning and/or design.
I tend to agree... I enjoyed it thoroughly for the most part, but it was completely lacking in any kind of subtlety. I thought it was particularly weak in the treatment of Spock - the actor did fine, I just feel like it lacked any kind of real introspection (or subtlety) with regard to his development. As much as I enjoyed the movie, I couldn't help being a little bit disappointed - it was clearly designed to appeal to as many people as possible, and was completely devoid of the things that I remember setting early Star Trek movies apart. Of course, I haven't actually watched a Star Trek movie in years (I think First Contact was the last one I saw), so I may just not remember them very well.
Read your post, and all I got was that I made a good choice getting 5.8 Ghz phones because they work great inside my house, and are less likely to cause interference inside my neighbors' houses because the higher frequency is less likely to penetrate two sets of walls. Sounds perfect to me. I'd prefer not to have my home phone transmitting all over the neighborhood - I have a cell phone for when I'm out.
You can really relate this to action movies. Lucas said and then forgot "A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing."
I'd love to sit Lucas down to watch the opening of Revenge of the Sith and just play that quote over and over. Such an utter waste of tens of millions of dollars for special effects that left me bored to tears -- because it completely lacks any kind of story.
Have you seen the deficits those road-building transit authorities are running? It's like they think the government should provide this service for free to whoever wants to use it. Ridiculous.
I suspect that onece the bottle is opened it's worth considerably less. But then I actually know what the fuck I'm talking about, in so far as I can spell "whisky", I've ben to Scotland (twice) and I can point ot it on a map.
Can't spell 'been', or 'or', or 'once', though, apparently.
I'd guess they extract the material they need by inserting a syringe through the cork. When they pull it, it should seal up pretty much the same as it was before they collected the sample. Probably not pulling the cork and ruining the bottle.
Just a guess. I have not been to Scotland, and I do not know how to spell whiskey.
Wow, you're experience is exactly the opposite of mine and everyone I know who has ordered anything from them. Every item I've ordered has arrived earlier than their estimated delivery date, and has always been complete and correct. Of course, this means I don't really know how their customer service is, because I've never had a need to deal with it... they always seem to get everything right the first time (probably 20-30 orders over the last 6 or 8 years). That said, there are always exceptions...
Getting increasingly off-topic here, but why should the US Navy deploy, except to protect US interests (as they did when a US-flagged ship was taken)? Personally, I think it is the responsibility of the nation of registration to protect shipping operating under their flag. I'd just love to see the Panamanian and Liberian navies take care of this problem. Not likely. Maybe shipping companies should reconsider those flags of convenience they operate under. Shipping companies want to avoid the higher safety standards and taxes that go with registering with the US or European nations? Fine - but don't expect us to come to the rescue when pirates ignore the implied protection of the flag you are flying.
See those big towers? Those are evaporative cooling towers. Simple, cheap, and highly efficient in terms of energy costs to operate (not so much in terms of water usage).
Ever wonder why power plants that use steam-driven generators (coal, gas, nuclear) tend to be located near large bodies of water? Same issues that high-density data center operators are discovering.
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In fact, hydrofracturing has been used in oil, natural gas, and even water production wells for may years. Ooh looky, wikipeida even has an entry on it!
Basically, this whole story is a lot of controversy over an effect that is known. Yes, hydrofracturing and introducing fluid in an area already seismically active is likely to trigger seismic events - but the size of these events is limited by the amount of accumulated strain in the bedrock, and will most likely be similar to the naturally-occurring events (or smaller).
But if they had "stored wealth" in their community by actually improving the infrastructure prior to the hurricane then there wouldn't have been a problem, now would there?
Was this an international trip? If not, according to what you stated above, he has no reason to file a CMIR even if he was carrying over $10,000. And if it was an international flight (and he was carrying over $10,000), it should be handled by customs, not by the TSA. TSA agents should be focused on preventing items and people from getting on flights that pose a direct threat to that flight.
So you hate them because they don't fight ALL your battles for you?
This point of view never made any sense to me. You hate them with a passion because they do great good, fighting for our collective rights, but there is one area you are interested in that they do not actively fight for, so you hate them? Yeah... that makes sense.
idgodmode? Don't you mean iddqd?
The first ISP to provide free time on a good MMO and the bandwidth to enjoy it as part of the service just gets my respect.
Screw that. I don't want to have a portion of the money I'm paying for an internet connection going to some bullshit MMO that I'm never going to go near. How about we drop all the extra crap, and they just give me the internet connection I'm paying for? Cut out all the add-on bullshit I never use and offer it as a separate package.
These tie-ins and packages are becoming stupid. Every ISP (well, the big ones that actually own the networks, anyway) seems to be trying to emulate AOL from 15 years ago - instead of providing internet access (you know, what I give them money for) they throw in all this useless, self-branded crap that I'm never going to use. Cut my bill by $2 a month a drop the BS. If they want to offer bundled games and branded portals, etc., fine - but don't make that a standard part of the internet access I'm paying for. Hell, I don't even care if they give me an email address - I can't remember the last time I actually used the email address(es) provided by my ISP.
Also, the field has reversed itself (pointing in to the planet, allowing radiation in, rather than keeping it out) many times.
Well, you're right about there being records of many reversals, but wrong about the effect. A reversal does not result in the field "pointing into the planet, allowing radiation in...", it just means that the magnetic north and south poles reverse locations. Instead of charged particles being funneled to one pole by the magnetic field, they would be funneled to the other pole.
To be fair, the paper doesn't make the claim that the article and summary say it makes. The paper only claims that some of the secular variation observed in paleomagnetic and geomagnetic data may be the result of variations in the flow of ocean currents through the "primary" magnetic field. There is no claim that the ocean currents are responsible for this primary field. As seems all to common, the slashdot summary is wildly inaccurate - although in this case there is an excuse (sort of), as the linked article is also wildly inaccurate.
If you actually look at the paper (which is linked in the summary) you will see that it doesn't claim that the earth's magnetic field is generated by ocean currents, as reported by the summary and the linked article. They claim that SOME of the secular variation (changes in orientation and strength of the magnetic field observed at a point through time) is the result of changing circulation of the ocean currents through earth's primary magnetic field. This really isn't groundbreaking, as many (most) paleomagnetists and geomagnetists have considered the idea, but it does show that the effect can be significant. It might also explain some of the correlation between climate change and secular variation that has been observed in numerous records. Instead of the changes observed in the strength and orientation of the magnetic field being the cause (or related to the cause) of climate change, this suggests that they are more likely the indirect result of climate change - climate change affects ocean circulation, which in turn affects the total magnetic field at a given point.
That's correct. According to their theory, moons like Europa should have a rather strong magnetosphere.
If you look at the actual paper you will quickly notice that both the slashdot summary and the primary linked article are both inaccurate. They are not suggesting that the oceans create the primary magnetic field of the earth - in fact, in the paper's abstract it clearly states that the field they are discussing is the result of circulation of oceans through the primary magnetic field. So no, according to their theory Europa should not necessarily have a strong magnetic field; they are not claiming that ocean circulation alone is responsible for the earth's (or Europa's) magnetic field.
Removing the eject button was a good idea; it prevented you from ejecting a disk without unmounting it and ending up with corrupted date.
Removing the eject button was an idiotic idea, and it illustrates one of the great failures of personal computer design philosophy - the idea that the system builder/designer knows better than the user how the user should use the system. If I want to eject a disk in the middle of an operation then I should be able to - maybe the possibility of corruption is preferable to the alternative of letting an operation continue. Maybe an electrical fire just started in the system power supply, and I want to get my floppy out NOW. Maybe a million things that the designer didn't think of. The assumption that the user is an idiot and doesn't know what they are doing, and that their control over the system must be severely limited for their own protection, is the single worst PC design mistake.
Light pollution is generally considered the unnecessary lighting of the night sky. Wile some complain about things like unnecessary street lights, the main thrust (for most people) is working on shrouding area lights so they only light what is needed. For example, if you ever look at the lights at a stadium (where they are really only meant to be lighting the field), a huge amount of light is directed upwards, basically as leakage. Not only does this brighten the whole sky, it is a waste of a significant amount of energy - there really isn't a reason to light up the sky. In this case, light pollution could be significantly reduced by simply shrouding the tops of the lights (hell, use a mirrored surface to shroud them, and you increase the effective light output at the target for the same cost in energy).
For the most part, the anti-light pollution movement isn't about removing lights completely, it is about thinking through the orientation, placement, and design of lights to reduce needless leakage into the night sky. It is pollution when the light serves no useful purpose, or there is excessive leakage into non-target areas because of poor planning and/or design.
Front Page Sports: Football was better ;)
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I tend to agree... I enjoyed it thoroughly for the most part, but it was completely lacking in any kind of subtlety. I thought it was particularly weak in the treatment of Spock - the actor did fine, I just feel like it lacked any kind of real introspection (or subtlety) with regard to his development.
As much as I enjoyed the movie, I couldn't help being a little bit disappointed - it was clearly designed to appeal to as many people as possible, and was completely devoid of the things that I remember setting early Star Trek movies apart. Of course, I haven't actually watched a Star Trek movie in years (I think First Contact was the last one I saw), so I may just not remember them very well.
Read your post, and all I got was that I made a good choice getting 5.8 Ghz phones because they work great inside my house, and are less likely to cause interference inside my neighbors' houses because the higher frequency is less likely to penetrate two sets of walls. Sounds perfect to me. I'd prefer not to have my home phone transmitting all over the neighborhood - I have a cell phone for when I'm out.
You can really relate this to action movies. Lucas said and then forgot "A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing."
I'd love to sit Lucas down to watch the opening of Revenge of the Sith and just play that quote over and over. Such an utter waste of tens of millions of dollars for special effects that left me bored to tears -- because it completely lacks any kind of story.
Have you seen the deficits those road-building transit authorities are running? It's like they think the government should provide this service for free to whoever wants to use it. Ridiculous.
I've heard that baby seal blood toner is better.
It is, but it tends to attract the land sharks.
And if your company is anything like mine, you've got way too many of those already.
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I suspect that onece the bottle is opened it's worth considerably less. But then I actually know what the fuck I'm talking about, in so far as I can spell "whisky", I've ben to Scotland (twice) and I can point ot it on a map.
Can't spell 'been', or 'or', or 'once', though, apparently.
I'd guess they extract the material they need by inserting a syringe through the cork. When they pull it, it should seal up pretty much the same as it was before they collected the sample. Probably not pulling the cork and ruining the bottle.
Just a guess. I have not been to Scotland, and I do not know how to spell whiskey.
Wow, you're experience is exactly the opposite of mine and everyone I know who has ordered anything from them. Every item I've ordered has arrived earlier than their estimated delivery date, and has always been complete and correct. Of course, this means I don't really know how their customer service is, because I've never had a need to deal with it... they always seem to get everything right the first time (probably 20-30 orders over the last 6 or 8 years).
That said, there are always exceptions...
Getting increasingly off-topic here, but why should the US Navy deploy, except to protect US interests (as they did when a US-flagged ship was taken)?
Personally, I think it is the responsibility of the nation of registration to protect shipping operating under their flag. I'd just love to see the Panamanian and Liberian navies take care of this problem. Not likely. Maybe shipping companies should reconsider those flags of convenience they operate under. Shipping companies want to avoid the higher safety standards and taxes that go with registering with the US or European nations? Fine - but don't expect us to come to the rescue when pirates ignore the implied protection of the flag you are flying.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rancho_Seco_Nuclear_Generating_Station.jpg
See those big towers? Those are evaporative cooling towers. Simple, cheap, and highly efficient in terms of energy costs to operate (not so much in terms of water usage).
Ever wonder why power plants that use steam-driven generators (coal, gas, nuclear) tend to be located near large bodies of water? Same issues that high-density data center operators are discovering.