I suspect the Afghani earthquakes altered the structure of the rocks causing greater water flow to specific areas below ground,hence the earthquake. Mt St Helen's hydrothermal activity is generated by a somewhat different and greater energy source, a significantly large magma chamber.
We in Australia have no active plate margins so we are sitting in the middle as our plate "rushes" ever-northward. This means we have no extant vulcanism (recent hot spot activity ceased a few thousand years ago) and no major earthquake zones on the continent. We do have some earthquakes with Newcastle being our biggest disaster - Richter 5.4?. Building codes have been tightened since then. Weatherwise, we are a tad dry(driest continent next to Antarctica). We have drought and bushfires. Bushfires would be our most common natural disaster with the recent bushfires in 2003 notably burning over 500 houses in my city, Canberra. Drought is a little harder to quantify as it can be argued to be often an economic, not a natural disaster. The counter to that is of couse episodic floods. Bot then again, flood zones are well known. Cyclones [Hurricanes] ravage our northern coast, but we have low populations. The destruction of Darwin in 1974 being the major disaster there. With the low rainfall and low relief, landlides are relatively rare, with a recent landslide in Thredbo being the exception. This was found to be caused by a broken water pipe, poor road construction, and uder-managed groundwater above the village.
You missed the whole point. But you probably already know that. There are theories about abiogenesis and exobiogenesis. Mars is an excellent opportunity to make falsifiable predictions from these theories and testing those predictions. That is all.
It seems to me that America adopted "The Australian Ballot" without adopting the Australian House of Reps/Senate preferential voting system. This at least gives other parties a better chance of representation and, at worst, an opportunity of voting for other than "Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee" without invalidating one's vote. As an aside, Australia doesn't have a Presidential Election (we have a Brit as our permament head-of-state:(. The suggestion made by the Libertarian of numbering as many or as few candidates as you want is a good idea. We have that in the ACT elections but with multi-seat electorates. It is a great way to order the candidates according to the "least annoyance" principle.
I had only just been allowed to use spoons again. After enduring the first Ewok movie, spoons were hidden in my house for fear I would try and do a "King Lear".
You can't kill everything and everybody unless ~100% lived near the coast AND the water rises faster than people can run including those at the limit of the sea level rise!
As for hot spots, like Yellowstone, Google the term "flood basalts" and you will get an idea of what has gone on in the past. See http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/no rth_america/yellowstone.html for example. Notice the mention that the calderas get younger toward the east. This ties in with plate tectonics due to ocean floor spreading at the mid-atlintic ridge. If you want to put some models together to test the possiblity of "The Flood" and the likelihood and nature of future catastrophes, understanding plate tectonics is vital. It's bigger than evolution is. Predictions and observations, that is what makes for a good theory.
The only Diluvian stories that make some sense at all are those who interpret the Bbiel less than literally. such as a local inundation.
Nice try, except Antarctica is a continent, unlike the Arctic. There are, however shield volcanoes, like underwater ones. To evaporate the entire ice shelf woudl require a lot more activity than what we see from the few volcanoes there. Besides, even at times of "green house earth conditions", with very small polar caps, we still had continents above sea level. You need a lot more water than what we have now to completely cover the earth, drowning everything. Check out sea level fluctuations through the ice ages to get an idea of the range of sea level changes.
Who's accepting what blindly? One can come up with a whole range of explanatations for how things are, but the explanation has to be internally consistent. Young Earth Creationists have not put up any consistent, testable mechanisms for how the earth is. BTW, I am not an evolutionist, no more than I am a gravitationist or plate tectonicist. Read up how science works and don't just rely on the lies of young earth creationists.
Freebie trips are standard fare for high-margin firms. MS are following a long tradition in my town. Interesting how, while working for a struggling but technically competent manufacturer, we often got the technical recommendation in government tenders, but the tenders were often awarded to companies that provided these trips. Nothing builds a relationship like an overseas holiday^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hfact-finding trip. The prospects even write up "reports" when they get back saying amazing things like "our goals and the company we visited are perfectly aligned". It is pretty sad.
And -- he doesn't have any kids, right? Two boys that might go around killing anyone who doesn't win Linux-based UT2K4 tournaments in Linus' name, right? Or terrorizing anyone who challenges the vision of the kernel?
Sorry to be picky with a perfectly funny post, but if you s/kids/sons/ then the story is correct. I can personally attest to that fact.
Only a customer can define the word "open." That's my view.
I was with Amdahl many years ago and we gave a presentation on UTS and "Open Systems" and one customer stated that they already had open systems because of Amdahl. They weren't locked into one vendor for hardware and that was enough leverage for him. [Amdahl had 80% market share among Govt departments in our city at the time]. He did miss the point that we were talking about operating systems and portable application APIs. Of course this utopic vision was clouded by the "Unix Wars" at the time where USL and OSF were about to expend inordinate amounts of energy fighting each other, giving another OS vendor an opportunity to gain a foothold in markets where it didn't really fit. But that is another sad story.
Expressions such as "country kilometre", "missed by a centimetre", "in for a gram, in for a kilogram" never really took on is Australia.
The other big cultural influence in the US. For example, my son, 9 years old at the time, referred to people's heights in feet. He was born 11 years after the metric system came in to Australia. He was collection basketball cards at the time.
Generally, the change has been for the better though. Volumes in particular.
We had one guy hear trasport a E450 on its wheels down the street about 40 metres and we had to reseat everything before it booted properly.
This is the best hack I've seen in a long time.
Who cares if it's practical or much easier with a powerbook or whatever, it is not the point.
Isn't that the constuction the Natural Numbers? Though there is some argument about whether 0 is natural. In Analysis, my lecturer treats the naturals from 1 upward. In Set theory, you are definitely correct.
I can only invoke my limited mathematical knowledge and point out that zero is calculated axiomatically using a numbers' additive inverse ie a + (-a). Axioms are from which all subsequent mathematical proofs flow.
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I have seen reference to Portuguese maps of the east coast of Australia that Cook had. It was in an autobigraphy on Joseph Banks IIRC - what an amazing, inspiring character, but another story entirely. The trouble was that the maps were "illegal" under the Treaty of Tordesillas so the Portuguese would have been keen to get some benefit of some kind for it at least.
Actually they are taking away only $13m, leaving SCO with $45m [by your accounting anyway - nett outgoings since that report have to be taken into account].
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I suspect the Afghani earthquakes altered the structure of the rocks causing greater water flow to specific areas below ground,hence the earthquake. Mt St Helen's hydrothermal activity is generated by a somewhat different and greater energy source, a significantly large magma chamber.
That would be White Island, NZ http://www.geonet.org.nz/whiteisland.html
Looks like he's still alive :-)
We in Australia have no active plate margins so we are sitting in the middle as our plate "rushes" ever-northward. This means we have no extant vulcanism (recent hot spot activity ceased a few thousand years ago) and no major earthquake zones on the continent. We do have some earthquakes with Newcastle being our biggest disaster - Richter 5.4?. Building codes have been tightened since then. Weatherwise, we are a tad dry(driest continent next to Antarctica). We have drought and bushfires. Bushfires would be our most common natural disaster with the recent bushfires in 2003 notably burning over 500 houses in my city, Canberra. Drought is a little harder to quantify as it can be argued to be often an economic, not a natural disaster. The counter to that is of couse episodic floods. Bot then again, flood zones are well known. Cyclones [Hurricanes] ravage our northern coast, but we have low populations. The destruction of Darwin in 1974 being the major disaster there. With the low rainfall and low relief, landlides are relatively rare, with a recent landslide in Thredbo being the exception. This was found to be caused by a broken water pipe, poor road construction, and uder-managed groundwater above the village.
I learnt all this and more at http://ems.anu.edu.au/student/ug/index.php?unit=ge ol1002
You missed the whole point. But you probably already know that. There are theories about abiogenesis and exobiogenesis. Mars is an excellent opportunity to make falsifiable predictions from these theories and testing those predictions. That is all.
It seems to me that America adopted "The Australian Ballot" without adopting the Australian House of Reps/Senate preferential voting system. This at least gives other parties a better chance of representation and, at worst, an opportunity of voting for other than "Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee" without invalidating one's vote. As an aside, Australia doesn't have a Presidential Election (we have a Brit as our permament head-of-state :(. The suggestion made by the Libertarian of numbering as many or as few candidates as you want is a good idea. We have that in the ACT elections but with multi-seat electorates. It is a great way to order the candidates according to the "least annoyance" principle.
I had only just been allowed to use spoons again. After enduring the first Ewok movie, spoons were hidden in my house for fear I would try and do a "King Lear".
The vast majority politicians would probably jump at that because it wouldn't be buried in their electorate.
You can't kill everything and everybody unless ~100% lived near the coast AND the water rises faster than people can run including those at the limit of the sea level rise! As for hot spots, like Yellowstone, Google the term "flood basalts" and you will get an idea of what has gone on in the past. See http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/no rth_america/yellowstone.html for example. Notice the mention that the calderas get younger toward the east. This ties in with plate tectonics due to ocean floor spreading at the mid-atlintic ridge. If you want to put some models together to test the possiblity of "The Flood" and the likelihood and nature of future catastrophes, understanding plate tectonics is vital. It's bigger than evolution is. Predictions and observations, that is what makes for a good theory.
The only Diluvian stories that make some sense at all are those who interpret the Bbiel less than literally. such as a local inundation.
Nice try, except Antarctica is a continent, unlike the Arctic. There are, however shield volcanoes, like underwater ones. To evaporate the entire ice shelf woudl require a lot more activity than what we see from the few volcanoes there. Besides, even at times of "green house earth conditions", with very small polar caps, we still had continents above sea level. You need a lot more water than what we have now to completely cover the earth, drowning everything. Check out sea level fluctuations through the ice ages to get an idea of the range of sea level changes.
Who's accepting what blindly? One can come up with a whole range of explanatations for how things are, but the explanation has to be internally consistent. Young Earth Creationists have not put up any consistent, testable mechanisms for how the earth is. BTW, I am not an evolutionist, no more than I am a gravitationist or plate tectonicist. Read up how science works and don't just rely on the lies of young earth creationists.
Telling lies for God. That'll get them in. Pity none of what you said stands up to scrutiny. Come back when you have a consistent story to tell.
Only problem is that Walruses aren't found in the Antartcic
Freebie trips are standard fare for high-margin firms. MS are following a long tradition in my town. Interesting how, while working for a struggling but technically competent manufacturer, we often got the technical recommendation in government tenders, but the tenders were often awarded to companies that provided these trips. Nothing builds a relationship like an overseas holiday^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hfact-finding trip. The prospects even write up "reports" when they get back saying amazing things like "our goals and the company we visited are perfectly aligned". It is pretty sad.
And -- he doesn't have any kids, right? Two boys that might go around killing anyone who doesn't win Linux-based UT2K4 tournaments in Linus' name, right? Or terrorizing anyone who challenges the vision of the kernel?
Sorry to be picky with a perfectly funny post, but if you s/kids/sons/ then the story is correct. I can personally attest to that fact.What is the Internet coming to? It's like saying "Hotmail" is "Internet Mail" and "The WWW" is "The Internet".
Only a customer can define the word "open." That's my view.
I was with Amdahl many years ago and we gave a presentation on UTS and "Open Systems" and one customer stated that they already had open systems because of Amdahl. They weren't locked into one vendor for hardware and that was enough leverage for him. [Amdahl had 80% market share among Govt departments in our city at the time]. He did miss the point that we were talking about operating systems and portable application APIs. Of course this utopic vision was clouded by the "Unix Wars" at the time where USL and OSF were about to expend inordinate amounts of energy fighting each other, giving another OS vendor an opportunity to gain a foothold in markets where it didn't really fit. But that is another sad story.
For 15 years I have said to anyone who listens is that their company motto is wrong. It should say "Software Superior by Acquisition".
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Expressions such as "country kilometre", "missed by a centimetre", "in for a gram, in for a kilogram" never really took on is Australia. The other big cultural influence in the US. For example, my son, 9 years old at the time, referred to people's heights in feet. He was born 11 years after the metric system came in to Australia. He was collection basketball cards at the time. Generally, the change has been for the better though. Volumes in particular.
The best working environments are those peopled with good staff, both technically, managerially and socially.
We had one guy hear trasport a E450 on its wheels down the street about 40 metres and we had to reseat everything before it booted properly. This is the best hack I've seen in a long time. Who cares if it's practical or much easier with a powerbook or whatever, it is not the point.
Isn't that the constuction the Natural Numbers? Though there is some argument about whether 0 is natural. In Analysis, my lecturer treats the naturals from 1 upward. In Set theory, you are definitely correct.
I can only invoke my limited mathematical knowledge and point out that zero is calculated axiomatically using a numbers' additive inverse ie a + (-a). Axioms are from which all subsequent mathematical proofs flow.
I have seen reference to Portuguese maps of the east coast of Australia that Cook had. It was in an autobigraphy on Joseph Banks IIRC - what an amazing, inspiring character, but another story entirely. The trouble was that the maps were "illegal" under the Treaty of Tordesillas so the Portuguese would have been keen to get some benefit of some kind for it at least.
Actually they are taking away only $13m, leaving SCO with $45m [by your accounting anyway - nett outgoings since that report have to be taken into account].