All of this research and these panels are government funded. It's absurd to say that "deniers" are making the subject political but supporters of the research are somehow not.
Even calling what is going on "research" is questionable. Note that even the CRU enquiries were critical of some of the methods used.
However, if anybody thinks that bacteria that evolved to metabolize oil seeps are going to be able to eat the output of a more or less uncapped modern production well before it floats and oils a whole lot of birds/beach/furry animals, they are dreaming.
Assuming these bacteria can even survive in such an environment in the first place. Or when oil is floating on the ocean surface. How are things going on capping the well?
See the US is about not signing international treaties it doesn't like (e.g. Kyoto). Canada's about signing them then ignoring them or taking so long to implement them that we might as well not have signed them in the first place (e.g. Kyoto).
The US not infrequently ignores treaties it has supposedly ratified. e.g. The Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty.
There's plenty of historical evidence that copyright laws of the kind created by the Statute of Anne and the copyright clause of the US Constitution aided both the economy and (more importantly, I think) the exchange of ideas within their jurisdictions. The UK experienced a veritable boom in publishing after Anne (the dawn of the modern novel and journalism as we know it). Both statutes were author-friendly (rather than publisher-friendly), and didn't significantly restrict the development of the public domain as copyrights expired fairly promptly. It's only with the imposition of absurdly long copyright terms (even just Berne-plus, let alone DMCA and ACTA level) that we've seen the diminishing economic returns, and ballooning restrictions on public freedom.
When improvements in communications technology, be they mechanically propelled vehicles or telecommunications, would imply that copyright terms should be getting shorter. Three hundred years ago it was utterly impossible to transport objects between two places on the planet in less than a day or send information (including live AV) at close to the speed of light.
Obviously there are significant businesses that thrive now and could only exist with strong copyright protections. Entertainment, media creation, information aggregators and sellers - all require strong copyright to exist.
Even that isn't obvious. Entertainment (especially popular entertainment) existed long before the idea of copyright was invented.
There is incredible interest and energy in people to consume, remix, and to create, even with the existing, extremely long copyright term, and the vast majority of media under strict copyright protections.
Here long copyright terms are more likely to help than hinder. e.g. it can be very difficult to even find out who to ask permission to remix songs 20+ years old, which were obscure when they were released.
A true democracy does not have to equal a direct democracy, but this is all semantics. The fact of the matter is we live in a place where our votes produce the people who will be voting for us. That is a democracy in spirit.
There are plenty of places with elections which are by no stretch of the imagination "democratic". As well as plenty of places where "candidate diversity" is poor. Also elections were not a part of the system of government originally called "democracy". Systems of governments which involve elected representatives tend to work best with fairly small populations (over 10 million is most definitly "too big").
The Jury was sympathetic that the city acted like idiots once it all started, but they were also cognizant that he wasn't completely blameless in what followed.
Actually the situation with the jury is strange. Since a juror was replaced, how could the replacement juror possibly have been competent? Also this sounds like a fairly elaborate form of "jury tampering".
Calling Apple's tech support line, which is staffed by people who would know absolutely nothing about a lost iPhone prototype and might not even be Apple employees, could hardly be considered a reasonable effort.
Does it actually matter if they are or arn't Apple employees? The caller is still calling the "corporate person" called "Apple". It's unreasonable to expect a third party to understand Apple's corporate structure. It might be an issue what Apple number someone called. If they were put through to "tech support" or initially called a different number and were advised by Apple to contact that department.
The credit on your bill is just a incentive to get the thermostat. The real saving is when you program you stat so your ac isn't cooling the house all day when your not around instead of having your old manual stat set to 15 deg C all day long.
The AC I have at work only goes down to 19C, even for the server room...
They got this on my hot water....and I can't opt out or over ride. They report only using it for about an hour at a time, and only 2 or 3 days a year for the last few years though. Yes, peak demand during summer afternoons.
Actually makes rather more sense with hot water since on hot days you need less energy for heating water...
Lots of 'agreements' have terms like that. In a lot of jurisdictions they carry no weight at all.
First you need to find out what jurisdiction. Facebook dosn't exactly go out of its way to tell you where they actually are. Their map implies they are in Western US, Eastern Canada, North West Europe (except Iceland), Russia, Japan, India, Egypt, Brazil, Colombia, Chilie, Nigeria, South Africa and South East Australia. Does selecting Canadian French mean that the jurisdiction is Canada; French French mean that it is France; Welsh that it is Wales; Czech that it is The Czech Republic; Catalan that it is Spain; etc.
How about we just make it illegal to attend a terrorist training camp and arrest those who do?
Is that ALL terrorist training camps or will and exception be made for "friendly" ones and those run by the US Government. Such as The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation...
Actually, dike/dyke is one of many English words with more than one accepted spelling.
Probably another of those things about spelling which Noah Webster (who appears to be responsible for quite a bit of the spelling differences between US English and just about any other English dialect) had issues with.
You can see this same phenomenon with doughnut/donut; modern descriptive dictionaries consider both to be correct, and "donut" has become the more common spelling these days,
Another explanation would be display signs, the shorter the word the bigger text you can use for a given size of sign...
Are you really unaware that in US English, the language in which this website is published, dike means what you hold water back with, and dyke means lesbian?
Simply put, if you have a suspect the correct response is investigations, trial and eventually jail.
Something which wasn't really done after 9/11...
See trough the security veil: the air marshals program totalled a 200billion costs to american taxpayers, while arresting _four_ people and mostly for non terrorism related crimes. That's to give you a measure how effective are large scale lenitive measures.
In the same time more air marshals having been arrested.
And they failed to catch the underpant bomber which luckily was an incompetent.
Whilst a big fuss is made about "Islamic terrorists" there appear to be plenty of incompetents. e.g. Richard Reid, Kafeel Ahmed, Bilal Abdullah, Nicky Reilly and now Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. These people certainly arn't Ted Kaczynski or even Timothy McVeigh. Nor does Al Quada appear to be anything like as big a problem as The Real IRA. Especially considering that these people are actually capable of attacking military bases.
The one constant truth of all zealots is that obedience to the rules they fight for is far more important to them than the reason for the rules' existence.
They also tend to be quite about what rules they choose to take notice of.
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All of this research and these panels are government funded. It's absurd to say that "deniers" are making the subject political but supporters of the research are somehow not.
Even calling what is going on "research" is questionable. Note that even the CRU enquiries were critical of some of the methods used.
However, if anybody thinks that bacteria that evolved to metabolize oil seeps are going to be able to eat the output of a more or less uncapped modern production well before it floats and oils a whole lot of birds/beach/furry animals, they are dreaming.
Assuming these bacteria can even survive in such an environment in the first place. Or when oil is floating on the ocean surface.
How are things going on capping the well?
See the US is about not signing international treaties it doesn't like (e.g. Kyoto). Canada's about signing them then ignoring them or taking so long to implement them that we might as well not have signed them in the first place (e.g. Kyoto).
The US not infrequently ignores treaties it has supposedly ratified. e.g. The Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty.
Does this study include the 300 million in the US living with bad IP laws? Over restrictive is just as bad as not restrictive enough.
There are plenty of situations where "too much" of something is more harmful than "too little" (or even "none at all").
There's plenty of historical evidence that copyright laws of the kind created by the Statute of Anne and the copyright clause of the US Constitution aided both the economy and (more importantly, I think) the exchange of ideas within their jurisdictions. The UK experienced a veritable boom in publishing after Anne (the dawn of the modern novel and journalism as we know it). Both statutes were author-friendly (rather than publisher-friendly), and didn't significantly restrict the development of the public domain as copyrights expired fairly promptly. It's only with the imposition of absurdly long copyright terms (even just Berne-plus, let alone DMCA and ACTA level) that we've seen the diminishing economic returns, and ballooning restrictions on public freedom.
When improvements in communications technology, be they mechanically propelled vehicles or telecommunications, would imply that copyright terms should be getting shorter. Three hundred years ago it was utterly impossible to transport objects between two places on the planet in less than a day or send information (including live AV) at close to the speed of light.
Obviously there are significant businesses that thrive now and could only exist with strong copyright protections. Entertainment, media creation, information aggregators and sellers - all require strong copyright to exist.
Even that isn't obvious. Entertainment (especially popular entertainment) existed long before the idea of copyright was invented.
There is incredible interest and energy in people to consume, remix, and to create, even with the existing, extremely long copyright term, and the vast majority of media under strict copyright protections.
Here long copyright terms are more likely to help than hinder. e.g. it can be very difficult to even find out who to ask permission to remix songs 20+ years old, which were obscure when they were released.
A true democracy does not have to equal a direct democracy, but this is all semantics. The fact of the matter is we live in a place where our votes produce the people who will be voting for us. That is a democracy in spirit.
There are plenty of places with elections which are by no stretch of the imagination "democratic". As well as plenty of places where "candidate diversity" is poor. Also elections were not a part of the system of government originally called "democracy".
Systems of governments which involve elected representatives tend to work best with fairly small populations (over 10 million is most definitly "too big").
I was in a very similar situation once. The fact remains he didn't comply.
Such a situation can be very much one of "between a rock and a hard place".
He assumed the people in that room weren't worthy/qualified/etc. on his own.
So he should have assumed, in the absence of any evidence, that they were.
As an administrator he should have given the password once asked by a superior, that instant.
Which in a (slightly) different situation would result in being instantly fired.
The Jury was sympathetic that the city acted like idiots once it all started, but they were also cognizant that he wasn't completely blameless in what followed.
Actually the situation with the jury is strange. Since a juror was replaced, how could the replacement juror possibly have been competent? Also this sounds like a fairly elaborate form of "jury tampering".
Calling Apple's tech support line, which is staffed by people who would know absolutely nothing about a lost iPhone prototype and might not even be Apple employees, could hardly be considered a reasonable effort.
Does it actually matter if they are or arn't Apple employees? The caller is still calling the "corporate person" called "Apple". It's unreasonable to expect a third party to understand Apple's corporate structure.
It might be an issue what Apple number someone called. If they were put through to "tech support" or initially called a different number and were advised by Apple to contact that department.
Don't let the users run as administrators, and most of the infection problems will go away.
In many cases this is an issue more relevent to clueless developers together with clueless vendor support...
Having these concealed cruise missiles is likely to decrease willingness to openly start a war, but given the chances were already fairly low,
It might also help deter military coups backed by other governments.
The data is valuable to them when it's valid so change it to nonsense.
Or you could go after them for copyright infringement.
The credit on your bill is just a incentive to get the thermostat. The real saving is when you program you stat so your ac isn't cooling the house all day when your not around instead of having your old manual stat set to 15 deg C all day long.
The AC I have at work only goes down to 19C, even for the server room...
They got this on my hot water....and I can't opt out or over ride. They report only using it for about an hour at a time, and only 2 or 3 days a year for the last few years though. Yes, peak demand during summer afternoons.
Actually makes rather more sense with hot water since on hot days you need less energy for heating water...
Lots of 'agreements' have terms like that. In a lot of jurisdictions they carry no weight at all.
First you need to find out what jurisdiction. Facebook dosn't exactly go out of its way to tell you where they actually are. Their map implies they are in Western US, Eastern Canada, North West Europe (except Iceland), Russia, Japan, India, Egypt, Brazil, Colombia, Chilie, Nigeria, South Africa and South East Australia. Does selecting Canadian French mean that the jurisdiction is Canada; French French mean that it is France; Welsh that it is Wales; Czech that it is The Czech Republic; Catalan that it is Spain; etc.
How about we just make it illegal to attend a terrorist training camp and arrest those who do?
Is that ALL terrorist training camps or will and exception be made for "friendly" ones and those run by the US Government. Such as The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation...
I don't think plants like salt water...
So what are saltwater algae then?
Sure; but the human population in the region is MORE worth preserving.
A good first step would be considering the humans there of equal worth. As opposed to giving some of them lots of money and weapons...
The Dead Sea is a major tourist attraction
Plenty of other possible tourist attractions in the area. Just the problem that tourists don't tend to want to go to warzones.
Actually, dike/dyke is one of many English words with more than one accepted spelling.
Probably another of those things about spelling which Noah Webster (who appears to be responsible for quite a bit of the spelling differences between US English and just about any other English dialect) had issues with.
You can see this same phenomenon with doughnut/donut; modern descriptive dictionaries consider both to be correct, and "donut" has become the more common spelling these days,
Another explanation would be display signs, the shorter the word the bigger text you can use for a given size of sign...
Are you really unaware that in US English, the language in which this website is published, dike means what you hold water back with, and dyke means lesbian?
A better US Translation might be "levee"...
And those windmills they historically used to keep the land (polders) dry
Windmills which directly ran the pumps. No doubt there's going to be some joker to advise electric pumps driven by wind turbines...
Simply put, if you have a suspect the correct response is investigations, trial and eventually jail.
Something which wasn't really done after 9/11...
See trough the security veil: the air marshals program totalled a 200billion costs to american taxpayers, while arresting _four_ people and mostly for non terrorism related crimes. That's to give you a measure how effective are large scale lenitive measures.
In the same time more air marshals having been arrested.
And they failed to catch the underpant bomber which luckily was an incompetent.
Whilst a big fuss is made about "Islamic terrorists" there appear to be plenty of incompetents. e.g. Richard Reid, Kafeel Ahmed, Bilal Abdullah, Nicky Reilly and now Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. These people certainly arn't Ted Kaczynski or even Timothy McVeigh. Nor does Al Quada appear to be anything like as big a problem as The Real IRA. Especially considering that these people are actually capable of attacking military bases.
The one constant truth of all zealots is that obedience to the rules they fight for is far more important to them than the reason for the rules' existence.
They also tend to be quite about what rules they choose to take notice of.