Lol, I'm not trying to dick with it, I'm trying to utterly demolish it, as should be done to all hoaxes, especially the misanthropic ones like AGW. So mod me up! Some kool-aid drinker has already modded me down.
- For most of Earth's history it had no polar icecaps whatsoever. That is the most common state of this planet. The only reason we currently have polar icecaps is because we are still emerging from the most recent glaciation (i.e., ice age).
- Only 50 million years ago, there were thousands of ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere, and Antarctica was covered with lush beech forests. The subsequent decrease in CO2 caused the continent to become a barren wasteland of ice; it was not good for life. The current level is 403 ppm, and no scenario of fossil fuel usage is consistent with a return to thousands of ppm.
- The fossil record shows that polar bears have survived the comings and goings of multiple glaciations -- each one accompanied by a change in sea level that was about 120 times greater than climate models are predicting will occur in the next century.
it's really only the influence that China wields that keeps them from getting steamrolled by any of several other countries or groups.
That was true before NK was a nuclear power. Now, NK's nukes keep them from getting steamrolled by any of several other countries or groups.
For all their craziness, the Kim dynasty understood this and, starving peasants be damned, poured resources they couldn't afford into the nuclear program. Now it has paid off and they've arrived at the promised land of holding an effective nuclear deterrent. (Let us hope that's all it will be used for.)
Allowing Slashdot members to send private messages to each other is a vital need. There are times when
* members want to continue a conversation with each other, while drifting into off-topic territory * one member wants to pick the brain of another and/or collaborate on Something Big * member A is so impressed with member B's posts, that A wants to offer employment to B.
Currently, if you want to contact another Slashdot member, you use the kludge of replying to one of that member's comments. And of course there's no guarantee that member is even checking to see whether any replies are coming in. Furthermore there's no way to privately exchange phone numbers, etc. Put my email address into my profile? Are you kidding me??
Slashdot is a collection of really big brains, who are unbelievably handicapped by the lack of a way to communicate with each other. Unleash the potential! By doing so, Slashdot would attract even more really big brains.
The current score cap of 5 is an arbitrarily chosen number. Because of that arbitrary cap, we end up with some +5 comments that are much better than others.
Lift the cap, and users will be able to see what the Slashdot community truly thinks about each comment. Then we will see, for example, the occasional incredibly profound comment attain a score of +10, and we can filter accordingly if there are a large number of +5s and we don't have time to read them all.
It sounds like the powers-that-be behind ITER are going to press ahead with it, despite the fact that progress would come better, faster and cheaper by switching to an ARC-like design.
Just as the powers that be are pressing forward with Space Launch System, even though we could put more stuff in orbit, sooner and cheaper, by developing the Falcon XX instead.
They're never going to stop piracy... Movie companies would do a much better job if they stopped trying to squash any sort of piracy
How is your argument any different from the following?
- Retailers are never going to stop shoplifting. The should stop trying. - The police are never going to stop murder. They should stop trying to enforce that law. - The SEC is never going to stop securities fraud. They should stop trying to enforce those laws.
Strawman much? I've never heard anyone claim that Hollywood will be killed by piracy, just as I've never heard anyone claim that Macy's will be killed by shoplifting.
It won't kill Macy's, but shoplifting has killed lesser retailers who almost attained profitability, and it is a crime.
How well would the following argument hold up? "There are more than enough shoppers on this planet to accommodate the greedy stockholders who own Macy's, as well as accommodating those who don't feel like paying them a damn dime for the merchandise on the shelves."
(Nevermind that in many cases, those "greedy stockholders" are senior citizens on fixed incomes, whose pension fund owns shares of Macy's, or Viacom, or Disney.)
I suspect you're not as cavalier about theft when it's your property -- intellectual or otherwise -- that's stolen.
Thanks, here's another great idea: allow Slashdot members to send private messages to each other.
There are times when members want to continue a conversation with each other, while drifting into off-topic territory; or where one member wants to pick the brain of another and/or collaborate on Something Big; or where member A is so impressed with member B's posts, that A wants to offer employment to B.
Currently, if you want to contact another Slashdot member, you use the kludge of replying to one of that member's comments. And of course there's no guarantee that member is even checking to see whether any replies are coming in. Furthermore there's no way to privately exchange phone numbers, etc.
Slashdot is a collection of really big brains, who are unbelievably handicapped by the lack of a way to communicate with each other. Unleash the potential! By doing so, Slashdot would attract even more really big brains.
(You many have noticed my really low user ID, 3683. Having observed things since the beginning, I know whereof I speak about the limitations that are holding Slashdot back.)
No, every election shouldn't have a line for "None of the above". If a voter doesn't like any of the candidates, he or she can still help society by voting for the lesser of two evils. (Or if there are n undesirable candidates on the ballot, by voting for the least of n evils.)
Does it suck when you have to hold your nose and vote for the lesser of two evils? Sure, but if you don't, you're more likely to get the greater of two evils. Which sucks even more.
Slashdot's comment moderation system is better than just about every other site's, but there is still room for improvement.
Why cap comment scores at 5? Because of that arbitrary cap, we end up with some +5 comments that are much better than others.
Lift the cap, so users can see what the Slashdot community really thinks about each comment. Then we will see, for example, the occasional incredibly profound comment attain a score of +10, and we can filter accordingly if there are a large number of +5s and we don't have time to read them all.
You present a false choice, between a social safety net and no social safety net.
We are always going to have a social safety net. The real choice is, will we pursue pro-growth policies that allow us to fund a great safety net rather effortlessly? Or will we condemn ourselves to a low-growth economy, in which maintaining a mediocre safety net is rather burdensome?
Social Security was set up as a rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul scheme, with Peter being current workers, and Paul being current retirees. (Along with that scheme comes a constant angst: "Birth rates are falling, and if we don't let in millions of immigrants with questionable skills and loyalties, there won't be enough workers paying FICA taxes and Social Security will collapse!")
If it had instead been set up as a system of more privatized accounts, with owners permitted to invest the funds in bonds and diversified stock holdings, all current retirees would be immensely better off. And they would have the means to contribute to a more robust social safety net than the one we currently have.
Scintillation in liquid Xenon happens when Xe atoms are ionized and temporarily form molecules before returning to a neutral state and emitting photons.
Then TF summary is wrong when it says "liquid Xenon sits waiting for a dark matter particle to strike the nucleus of a Xenon molecule".
It's also entirely likely that the person who wrote the summary wrote "molecule" when they meant "atom"...
This. TFA doesn't contain the word "molecule," only TF summary does. Would make no sense for this detector to contain macroscopic quantities of exotic polyatomic Xenon molecules.
Although the retailer claimed that my bulbs have a "warm" light with about the same color temperature as incandescent, I still notice that they throw a distinct bluish cast into the room. For me, it's not a very comfortable light.
They are "dimmable," too, but their "dynamic range" -- the spread between maximum and minimum brightness -- is not nearly as good as incandescents.
I will wait for a few more years of improvements before giving LEDs another chance.
If this was such a good solution, it could probably be used for LED lights as well
No. Incandescent filaments have to be hot to produce light, but with its entirely different mechanism, reflecting infrared back onto a light-emitting diode will not help it produce more light. Heat is NOT good for the diode. LED bulb designs actively do the opposite of these nanomirrors: they transfer heat away from the diode. (You may have noticed the fins on some LED bulbs. Their purpose is to radiate heat and keep the diode cooler.)
I would like to know the nature of the South's "propaganda" broadcasts. If the South is simply providing factual information about the outside world to residents of the North, "propaganda" is not a good term for it.
Although much of Keynes work was flawed, he's right about the "workweek." A 40-hour workweek is an entirely arbitrary number, so it makes no sense to cling to it.
Just as it makes sense to index tax brackets to inflation, to prevent bracket creep, it makes sense to index the length of the workweek -- if not to productivity, to something that prevents it from becoming a static, archaic notion.
RouteBuilder gives access to old-style Google Maps, which everybody loved, and impedes Google's forced migration to new-style Google Maps, which everybody hates.
If wind and solar are so cheap, why do you have to bribe people to build them?
Most people know what you mean, but for those who don't, I'll spell it out explicitly: if wind and solar are so cheap, why do they have to be subsidized so extensively?
If and when they're able to compete on a level (unsubsidized) playing field, bueno.
Slashdot Mirror
Pointing out that the hysteria over the fate of the polar bears is completely unfounded equals having a small mind? Umm, ok.
Lol, I'm not trying to dick with it, I'm trying to utterly demolish it, as should be done to all hoaxes, especially the misanthropic ones like AGW. So mod me up! Some kool-aid drinker has already modded me down.
- For most of Earth's history it had no polar icecaps whatsoever. That is the most common state of this planet. The only reason we currently have polar icecaps is because we are still emerging from the most recent glaciation (i.e., ice age).
- Only 50 million years ago, there were thousands of ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere, and Antarctica was covered with lush beech forests. The subsequent decrease in CO2 caused the continent to become a barren wasteland of ice; it was not good for life. The current level is 403 ppm, and no scenario of fossil fuel usage is consistent with a return to thousands of ppm.
- The fossil record shows that polar bears have survived the comings and goings of multiple glaciations -- each one accompanied by a change in sea level that was about 120 times greater than climate models are predicting will occur in the next century.
it's really only the influence that China wields that keeps them from getting steamrolled by any of several other countries or groups.
That was true before NK was a nuclear power. Now, NK's nukes keep them from getting steamrolled by any of several other countries or groups.
For all their craziness, the Kim dynasty understood this and, starving peasants be damned, poured resources they couldn't afford into the nuclear program. Now it has paid off and they've arrived at the promised land of holding an effective nuclear deterrent. (Let us hope that's all it will be used for.)
Allowing Slashdot members to send private messages to each other is a vital need. There are times when
* members want to continue a conversation with each other, while drifting into off-topic territory
* one member wants to pick the brain of another and/or collaborate on Something Big
* member A is so impressed with member B's posts, that A wants to offer employment to B.
Currently, if you want to contact another Slashdot member, you use the kludge of replying to one of that member's comments. And of course there's no guarantee that member is even checking to see whether any replies are coming in. Furthermore there's no way to privately exchange phone numbers, etc. Put my email address into my profile? Are you kidding me??
Slashdot is a collection of really big brains, who are unbelievably handicapped by the lack of a way to communicate with each other. Unleash the potential! By doing so, Slashdot would attract even more really big brains.
You can walk on my grave, clovis. But everybody with a 5000+ UID: get off our graves!
The current score cap of 5 is an arbitrarily chosen number. Because of that arbitrary cap, we end up with some +5 comments that are much better than others.
Lift the cap, and users will be able to see what the Slashdot community truly thinks about each comment. Then we will see, for example, the occasional incredibly profound comment attain a score of +10, and we can filter accordingly if there are a large number of +5s and we don't have time to read them all.
It sounds like the powers-that-be behind ITER are going to press ahead with it, despite the fact that progress would come better, faster and cheaper by switching to an ARC-like design.
Just as the powers that be are pressing forward with Space Launch System, even though we could put more stuff in orbit, sooner and cheaper, by developing the Falcon XX instead.
The phrase "shaking my head" is apt here.
They're never going to stop piracy... Movie companies would do a much better job if they stopped trying to squash any sort of piracy
How is your argument any different from the following?
- Retailers are never going to stop shoplifting. The should stop trying.
- The police are never going to stop murder. They should stop trying to enforce that law.
- The SEC is never going to stop securities fraud. They should stop trying to enforce those laws.
Strawman much? I've never heard anyone claim that Hollywood will be killed by piracy, just as I've never heard anyone claim that Macy's will be killed by shoplifting.
It won't kill Macy's, but shoplifting has killed lesser retailers who almost attained profitability, and it is a crime.
How well would the following argument hold up? "There are more than enough shoppers on this planet to accommodate the greedy stockholders who own Macy's, as well as accommodating those who don't feel like paying them a damn dime for the merchandise on the shelves."
(Nevermind that in many cases, those "greedy stockholders" are senior citizens on fixed incomes, whose pension fund owns shares of Macy's, or Viacom, or Disney.)
I suspect you're not as cavalier about theft when it's your property -- intellectual or otherwise -- that's stolen.
Great idea.
Thanks, here's another great idea: allow Slashdot members to send private messages to each other.
There are times when members want to continue a conversation with each other, while drifting into off-topic territory; or where one member wants to pick the brain of another and/or collaborate on Something Big; or where member A is so impressed with member B's posts, that A wants to offer employment to B.
Currently, if you want to contact another Slashdot member, you use the kludge of replying to one of that member's comments. And of course there's no guarantee that member is even checking to see whether any replies are coming in. Furthermore there's no way to privately exchange phone numbers, etc.
Slashdot is a collection of really big brains, who are unbelievably handicapped by the lack of a way to communicate with each other. Unleash the potential! By doing so, Slashdot would attract even more really big brains.
(You many have noticed my really low user ID, 3683. Having observed things since the beginning, I know whereof I speak about the limitations that are holding Slashdot back.)
No, every election shouldn't have a line for "None of the above". If a voter doesn't like any of the candidates, he or she can still help society by voting for the lesser of two evils. (Or if there are n undesirable candidates on the ballot, by voting for the least of n evils.)
Does it suck when you have to hold your nose and vote for the lesser of two evils? Sure, but if you don't, you're more likely to get the greater of two evils. Which sucks even more.
Slashdot's comment moderation system is better than just about every other site's, but there is still room for improvement.
Why cap comment scores at 5? Because of that arbitrary cap, we end up with some +5 comments that are much better than others.
Lift the cap, so users can see what the Slashdot community really thinks about each comment. Then we will see, for example, the occasional incredibly profound comment attain a score of +10, and we can filter accordingly if there are a large number of +5s and we don't have time to read them all.
Tres Amigas SuperStation
It would be a cool, large-scale application of superconductivity, but they're having some difficulties. Root for them if you like.
You present a false choice, between a social safety net and no social safety net.
We are always going to have a social safety net. The real choice is, will we pursue pro-growth policies that allow us to fund a great safety net rather effortlessly? Or will we condemn ourselves to a low-growth economy, in which maintaining a mediocre safety net is rather burdensome?
Social Security was set up as a rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul scheme, with Peter being current workers, and Paul being current retirees. (Along with that scheme comes a constant angst: "Birth rates are falling, and if we don't let in millions of immigrants with questionable skills and loyalties, there won't be enough workers paying FICA taxes and Social Security will collapse!")
If it had instead been set up as a system of more privatized accounts, with owners permitted to invest the funds in bonds and diversified stock holdings, all current retirees would be immensely better off. And they would have the means to contribute to a more robust social safety net than the one we currently have.
Where do you live, Rei? Your use of a decimal comma makes me think, one of these places: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Scintillation in liquid Xenon happens when Xe atoms are ionized and temporarily form molecules before returning to a neutral state and emitting photons.
Then TF summary is wrong when it says "liquid Xenon sits waiting for a dark matter particle to strike the nucleus of a Xenon molecule".
It's also entirely likely that the person who wrote the summary wrote "molecule" when they meant "atom"...
This. TFA doesn't contain the word "molecule," only TF summary does. Would make no sense for this detector to contain macroscopic quantities of exotic polyatomic Xenon molecules.
Although the retailer claimed that my bulbs have a "warm" light with about the same color temperature as incandescent, I still notice that they throw a distinct bluish cast into the room. For me, it's not a very comfortable light.
They are "dimmable," too, but their "dynamic range" -- the spread between maximum and minimum brightness -- is not nearly as good as incandescents.
I will wait for a few more years of improvements before giving LEDs another chance.
If this was such a good solution, it could probably be used for LED lights as well
No. Incandescent filaments have to be hot to produce light, but with its entirely different mechanism, reflecting infrared back onto a light-emitting diode will not help it produce more light. Heat is NOT good for the diode. LED bulb designs actively do the opposite of these nanomirrors: they transfer heat away from the diode. (You may have noticed the fins on some LED bulbs. Their purpose is to radiate heat and keep the diode cooler.)
I would like to know the nature of the South's "propaganda" broadcasts. If the South is simply providing factual information about the outside world to residents of the North, "propaganda" is not a good term for it.
Have the South Koreans made any notable technological advances in increasing the maximum range of a speaker
No, but the French have. Devialet Silver Phantom produces 105 dB sound pressure levels
Although much of Keynes work was flawed, he's right about the "workweek." A 40-hour workweek is an entirely arbitrary number, so it makes no sense to cling to it.
Just as it makes sense to index tax brackets to inflation, to prevent bracket creep, it makes sense to index the length of the workweek -- if not to productivity, to something that prevents it from becoming a static, archaic notion.
RouteBuilder gives access to old-style Google Maps, which everybody loved, and impedes Google's forced migration to new-style Google Maps, which everybody hates.
Plus, do you think a submitter named "mdsolar" might be bringing a preconceived bias into the solar vs. nuclear debate?
If wind and solar are so cheap, why do you have to bribe people to build them?
Most people know what you mean, but for those who don't, I'll spell it out explicitly: if wind and solar are so cheap, why do they have to be subsidized so extensively?
If and when they're able to compete on a level (unsubsidized) playing field, bueno.