Also it should be pointed out the lake itself is scheduled to be smooth at 5:00 - 5:15 am February 17th this year, so reserve your spot on the shore early!
Seriously, it's the only lake I've heard of that can be regularly surfed.
You must be watching a different CNN than the one I do. I don't see anything about this "world" hating us on mine. All I see are stories about the latest popular musician or how the McCain-Feingold ruling will affect the Two Only Parties.
I the library where I used to work the computerized card catalog had an "on-the-shelves" display similar to that. It was text but it was rotated 90 degrees and scrolled as you liked. There was also a map that showed the exact shelf the book was on. Of course, this was all from tracking, if a book was misshelved it was lost. Carpe RFID!
The crack about Congressional Democrats would likely challenge a presidential declaration that the sky is blue.
In the interest of equal time I'd like to point out any such declaration would likely contain amendments authorizing Ashcroft to eat babies of suspected terrorists, promoting Justice Scalia to Pope of the One True Faith, and paying Halliburton $1 billion to stripmine Yellowstone and sell the tailings as a food additive.
That's exactly the system I use for my common passwords; nonsense characters chosen because they fall well under the hand. The downside is I use Dvorak, so when faced with a qwerty keyboard I really have to stop and think, touch-typing it in my mind to get the actual characters.
I'll make this short. I'm an environmentalist. I also have a degree in biochemistry and know a thing or two about ecology. I do not want the entire human race removed from the planet.
Now we've met, and know each other, and you may retire what seems a favorite strawman.
"In this case, folks don't really have anything to complain about, that's how things work..."
As far as I'm concerned, "how things work" is exactly what I'm going to complain about most loudly. Very little of what goes on in human society is a physical law. The rest, well, we make the world we live in. Too many people are too used to the way things are, don't see how things could be, don't try to change what they don't like.
It may be hard work for little progress, but that's why there's people like me driving society to improve itself. I daren't say what a better world would be, but I want people to believe it's possible.
No, they're right. Rotting leaves and other processes tend to leach small amounts of hydrophobic substances into surface waters, where they collect in a skim on the surface. This time of year in northern Minnesota, many creeks and ponds in the woods are covered with a silvery irridescent skin.
More technically, English words are defined by the people that use them, regardless of their etymology or the meanings of their constituent roots and affixes. Because of all the hair-splitting that tends to occur in such discussions many of us use all sorts of precise terms like "acognitivist" or "apathist", but the take-home message is that "atheist" itself is often a big-tent generic label when such precision is not only unnecessary, but counterproductive, as in "Hey Moore, stop foisting State Monotheism on me, I'm an atheist and don't appreciate you marking your territory in government buildings!"
According to the TV special I saw, Kennedy waited until certain people at NASA thought it was feasable before making his "before this decade is out" challenge. He asked them what goal was far enough off that we might be able to ramp up and beat the commies at, they said the moon. He held on to that for a few months until they were more confident, then gave his stirring speech.
So how can we prove that it was the meager efforts of us humans that made the change, and not just a natural cycle?
The same way we can prove the "meager" efforts of humans started the problem in the first place. See, for example, this FAQ that lays out the argument. In addition, you should probably have continued your quote of that article, where it says "Sunspot variations only account for 2 to 4 % of the total variation in ozone concentrations."
That's kind of an exaggeration. I spent a season in Taylor valley, during that summer it snowed three times. It was an unmeasurable trace each time which quickly blew/sublimated away. However, there are constantly-shifting patches of accumulated snow on the mostly-dry ground. Some ice is present as glacial tongues poke through passes in the mountains that guard the valley, and covering the various lakes along the valley floor. Those lakes gradually sublimate/erode, but are refilled by glacial meltwater every summer. The surfaces of those lakes are covered year-round by 5-6 meters of ice but underneath that the lakes have been liquid for thousands of years. And there was one noticeable animal while I was there, an Adelie penguin that had gotten lost in the valley and couldn't find its way out. It's now joined the other mummified carcasses of trapped penguins and seals that lie about the valley.
Who would fardels bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life, but that the threat of something after death... puzzles the will, and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others we know not of?
I knew they made us memorize that thing in high school for a reason. I just didn't realize that reason would be/.
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That's nothing, I've got a car that can make 1.21 Gigawatts! Can't get it up past 88 mph for some reason, though.
That's a pretty sketchy example, but I'll take a stab at it: I'm quite glad the hazardous material was treated as hazardous. I'm not sure exactly what happened; limestone by itself doesn't AFAIK become strongly alkaline (or acidic for that matter) in water. Regardless, assuming the material truly was harmful the fact that the source was as common as limestone or that its status changed with its wetness doesn't change the fact that you don't want people not prepared to handle the stuff doing so. Many strong acids & bases can get on your skin and not cause noticeable burns until hours later, someone who says, "oh, it's just limestone" could find themselves seriously in trouble.
In defense of the situation with bubbles and water I think you're citing, that was all done on his free time, for fun, on his off day. The "real" science is usually backed by a whole group of researchers back home eagerly awaiting their results. I know from firsthand experience how hard it is to get a shuttle ride or ISS slot for an experiment. There's too much real demand for there to be much use for makework.
We can estimate the extent of hydrogen's contribution by comparing Hindenburg to a helium-filled airship, similarly covered, that similarly burned, as well as using other techniques learned from a lifetime of hydrogen expertise. Note from the article the matter isn't totally resolved, but the current accepted theory agrees with the grandposter.
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Your story is almost identical to my father's company's, with the exception that the evil change after the engineer/founder retired came from the no-talent a$$-kissing red-blooded American replacement CEO. The Dilbert principle is a phenomenon of businesses, not nations.
Or, to recapitulate (and exaggerate for effect) another poster, everything European corporations know about evil they learned from the Americans.
I believe cloud to ground and ground to cloud are the same thing, namely, cloud and ground both to midpoint. However, while most lightning comes from negatively-charged clouds some also comes from positively-charged (areas of the) clouds. It's these bolts that tend to be associated with sprites.
Corporations are legal entities usually made up of several (often millions) of individuals. An astonishing number of Americans own stock in these corporations (including me and probably most of your elderly relatives). It seems silly to abolish the right of these people to petition government through this medium simply because you don't like them.
I was going to post a detailed, thoughtful outline demonstrating how miserably foolish that is, including several quotes from prominent Founding Fathers, but psh, what's the point? Grow more up.
"the government would have to back all the statements in GPL such as 'All published software should be free software'"
Now that statement isn't really in the GPL, is it? The government wouldn't have to *back* the statements in the GPL any more than they have to *back* the statements in any other license for software they use, would they? The intentions of the author of the GPL aren't legally binding, are they? "Stupid" comes easily to your typing fingers only due to your internal excess thereof, doesn't it?
They have to "program" the Shuttle's computer by selecting between stored programs for different modes of operation. I have a copy of that book; it's cool but out of date. The shuttle has changed since it was first built, have you heard of the glass cockpit?
I agree the idea of astronauts floating around, letting the computers run everything, is totally off base. But give the Shuttle some credit.
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I've read "In the Beginning Was the Command Line", and I recall that anecdote. The attribution is correct.
Also it should be pointed out the lake itself is scheduled to be smooth at 5:00 - 5:15 am February 17th this year, so reserve your spot on the shore early!
Seriously, it's the only lake I've heard of that can be regularly surfed.
You must be watching a different CNN than the one I do. I don't see anything about this "world" hating us on mine. All I see are stories about the latest popular musician or how the McCain-Feingold ruling will affect the Two Only Parties.
I the library where I used to work the computerized card catalog had an "on-the-shelves" display similar to that. It was text but it was rotated 90 degrees and scrolled as you liked. There was also a map that showed the exact shelf the book was on. Of course, this was all from tracking, if a book was misshelved it was lost. Carpe RFID!
The crack about Congressional Democrats would likely challenge a presidential declaration that the sky is blue.
In the interest of equal time I'd like to point out any such declaration would likely contain amendments authorizing Ashcroft to eat babies of suspected terrorists, promoting Justice Scalia to Pope of the One True Faith, and paying Halliburton $1 billion to stripmine Yellowstone and sell the tailings as a food additive.
That's exactly the system I use for my common passwords; nonsense characters chosen because they fall well under the hand. The downside is I use Dvorak, so when faced with a qwerty keyboard I really have to stop and think, touch-typing it in my mind to get the actual characters.
I'll make this short. I'm an environmentalist. I also have a degree in biochemistry and know a thing or two about ecology. I do not want the entire human race removed from the planet.
Now we've met, and know each other, and you may retire what seems a favorite strawman.
"In this case, folks don't really have anything to complain about, that's how things work..."
As far as I'm concerned, "how things work" is exactly what I'm going to complain about most loudly. Very little of what goes on in human society is a physical law. The rest, well, we make the world we live in. Too many people are too used to the way things are, don't see how things could be, don't try to change what they don't like.
It may be hard work for little progress, but that's why there's people like me driving society to improve itself. I daren't say what a better world would be, but I want people to believe it's possible.
No, they can suffer and die in silence like good little wage slaves! If you aren't productive, you're just a waste of resources!
God, this country must have sold its humanity.
No, they're right. Rotting leaves and other processes tend to leach small amounts of hydrophobic substances into surface waters, where they collect in a skim on the surface. This time of year in northern Minnesota, many creeks and ponds in the woods are covered with a silvery irridescent skin.
Anything that starts with "Turn Your Head Into..." I'm outta there. Bad ideas surely follow.
More technically, English words are defined by the people that use them, regardless of their etymology or the meanings of their constituent roots and affixes. Because of all the hair-splitting that tends to occur in such discussions many of us use all sorts of precise terms like "acognitivist" or "apathist", but the take-home message is that "atheist" itself is often a big-tent generic label when such precision is not only unnecessary, but counterproductive, as in "Hey Moore, stop foisting State Monotheism on me, I'm an atheist and don't appreciate you marking your territory in government buildings!"
According to the TV special I saw, Kennedy waited until certain people at NASA thought it was feasable before making his "before this decade is out" challenge. He asked them what goal was far enough off that we might be able to ramp up and beat the commies at, they said the moon. He held on to that for a few months until they were more confident, then gave his stirring speech.
The same way we can prove the "meager" efforts of humans started the problem in the first place. See, for example, this FAQ that lays out the argument. In addition, you should probably have continued your quote of that article, where it says "Sunspot variations only account for 2 to 4 % of the total variation in ozone concentrations."
That's kind of an exaggeration. I spent a season in Taylor valley, during that summer it snowed three times. It was an unmeasurable trace each time which quickly blew/sublimated away. However, there are constantly-shifting patches of accumulated snow on the mostly-dry ground. Some ice is present as glacial tongues poke through passes in the mountains that guard the valley, and covering the various lakes along the valley floor. Those lakes gradually sublimate/erode, but are refilled by glacial meltwater every summer. The surfaces of those lakes are covered year-round by 5-6 meters of ice but underneath that the lakes have been liquid for thousands of years. And there was one noticeable animal while I was there, an Adelie penguin that had gotten lost in the valley and couldn't find its way out. It's now joined the other mummified carcasses of trapped penguins and seals that lie about the valley.
Who would fardels bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life, but that the threat of something after death... puzzles the will, and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others we know not of?
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I knew they made us memorize that thing in high school for a reason. I just didn't realize that reason would be
That's nothing, I've got a car that can make 1.21 Gigawatts! Can't get it up past 88 mph for some reason, though.
Sorry, had to do it.
That's a pretty sketchy example, but I'll take a stab at it: I'm quite glad the hazardous material was treated as hazardous. I'm not sure exactly what happened; limestone by itself doesn't AFAIK become strongly alkaline (or acidic for that matter) in water. Regardless, assuming the material truly was harmful the fact that the source was as common as limestone or that its status changed with its wetness doesn't change the fact that you don't want people not prepared to handle the stuff doing so. Many strong acids & bases can get on your skin and not cause noticeable burns until hours later, someone who says, "oh, it's just limestone" could find themselves seriously in trouble.
In defense of the situation with bubbles and water I think you're citing, that was all done on his free time, for fun, on his off day. The "real" science is usually backed by a whole group of researchers back home eagerly awaiting their results. I know from firsthand experience how hard it is to get a shuttle ride or ISS slot for an experiment. There's too much real demand for there to be much use for makework.
We can estimate the extent of hydrogen's contribution by comparing Hindenburg to a helium-filled airship, similarly covered, that similarly burned, as well as using other techniques learned from a lifetime of hydrogen expertise. Note from the article the matter isn't totally resolved, but the current accepted theory agrees with the grandposter.
Your story is almost identical to my father's company's, with the exception that the evil change after the engineer/founder retired came from the no-talent a$$-kissing red-blooded American replacement CEO. The Dilbert principle is a phenomenon of businesses, not nations.
Or, to recapitulate (and exaggerate for effect) another poster, everything European corporations know about evil they learned from the Americans.
I believe cloud to ground and ground to cloud are the same thing, namely, cloud and ground both to midpoint. However, while most lightning comes from negatively-charged clouds some also comes from positively-charged (areas of the) clouds. It's these bolts that tend to be associated with sprites.
I was going to post a detailed, thoughtful outline demonstrating how miserably foolish that is, including several quotes from prominent Founding Fathers, but psh, what's the point? Grow more up.
The original statement was:
"the government would have to back all the statements in GPL such as 'All published software should be free software'"
Now that statement isn't really in the GPL, is it? The government wouldn't have to *back* the statements in the GPL any more than they have to *back* the statements in any other license for software they use, would they? The intentions of the author of the GPL aren't legally binding, are they? "Stupid" comes easily to your typing fingers only due to your internal excess thereof, doesn't it?
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They have to "program" the Shuttle's computer by selecting between stored programs for different modes of operation. I have a copy of that book; it's cool but out of date. The shuttle has changed since it was first built, have you heard of the glass cockpit?
I agree the idea of astronauts floating around, letting the computers run everything, is totally off base. But give the Shuttle some credit.