At some point, a powerful country will be willing to go to war to halt carbon emissions. If you do the game theory math, if you don't bring down greenhouse emissions, the earth will eventually overheat and mass death will occur. If this is the outcome, there isn't any reason not to start blowing up everyone and everything emitting greenhouse gas. Either everyone dies, or you start dishing out death and destruction, and you might survive the resulting war(s). It's a pretty cold blooded calculus.
Hey if it's too hot, nothing like a little nuclear winter to cool things off.
Tasers are part of the problem. They were introduced as a way to keep officers from having to shoot with their guns when someone was out of control, but didn't have a weapon. Instead officers think that it's okay to use it to get compliance for everything, thus abusing people while abusing the intent of tasers.
torture --n. 1. The act of inflicting excruciating pain, esp. as a means of punishment or coercion. - Random House College Dictionary
Taser is torture unless it's to avoid shooting someone. Police who torture should be prosecuted.
Bicycles and walking are powered by very non-green energy sources. An engine that spews CO2 from one end and methane from the other end.
I don't know if you're being funny or serious, but that's a common misconception so I'll assume you're being serious. The CO2 and methane that we animals spew all came directly from the atomsphere through the food chain or through breathing. It's a closed cycle - plants and animals take CO2 from the atmosphere, store it a short while, then release it back into the atmosphere. That closed cycle is the gold standard of sustainability, pretty much the opposite of "non-green".
Son of Sam laws - which the courts have held to be unconstitutional.
From your link -
Though this original New York law was struck down, the Supreme Court ruling actually stated that Son of Sam laws could conceivably be constitutional, but only if written very carefully, with regard to First Amendment rights. Various states (including New York) now have laws to prevent felons from capitalizing on their crimes written with an eye towards adhering to the ruling laid out by the Supreme Court concerning the First Amendment.
After numerous revisions, New York adopted a law in 2001, again known as the "Son of Sam" law.[1] This law requires that victims of crimes be notified whenever a person convicted of a crime receives $10,000 (US) or moreâ"from virtually any source.[2] The law then attaches a springing statute of limitations, giving victims an extended period of time to sue the perpetrator of the crime in civil court for their crimes.[3] This law also authorizes a state agency, the Crime Victims' Board, to act on the victims' behalf in some limited circumstances.[4] Thus far, the current New York law has survived constitutional scrutiny.
So only the first New York law was held unconstitutional. Son of Sam laws in place now seem to be okay.
RedHat distros set a root password during install, but also require the creation of a non-root user; this user is added to the wheel group.
I don't know if you meant to include Fedora but on all my Fedora installs the only member of the wheel group has been root. I believe the same is true of Centos but I don't have it installed anywhere right now to check.
It doesn't exonerate Captain Rogers, nor can it explain why his crew was seemingly unable to read the information that was staring them in the face, specifically the fact that the aircraft was climbing the entire time they tracked it. That flight profile screams "NOT A THREAT" to anyone versed in anti air warfare, which you would expect the crew of an air defense cruiser to be, yet somehow they reported the contact as descending on an attack vector. There were doubtless many reasons for this failure, combat stress, the newness (at the time) of the AEGIS combat system, the double IFF response, the failure to establish communications with Iran Air 655, and so on. None of those facts excuse the failure though, at the end of the day the Captain of a ship is responsible for the happenings aboard ship, whether he could have influenced them or not, and Captain Rogers certainly had control over the training of his crew.
I seem to recall stories at the time of the shoot-down that the F-14s operating from the dual-use airbase Flight 655 took off from would routinely set their IFF transponders to Mode III (Civilian). If the crew of the Vincennes was aware of that then the IFF response from Flight 655 would have looked no different from an F-14.
This doesn't excuse Capt. Rogers since the flight profile and heading were, as you say, non-threatening, but it does remove a useful piece of information that might have led to a different decision.
Roy Spencer? - 10 to 1 the data is stratospheric temps presented as surface temps..
No, the data is accurate. It's a common method of cherry-picking used by deniers. All you have to do is pick a local maxima (like 1998) and run the average from there for a small period like 10 or 15 years.
A 15-year average doesn't mean anything - in climate science you need at least a 30 year average to see a meaningful trend.
"Aspartame accounts for over 75 percent of the adverse reactions to food additives reported to the FDA. Many of these reactions are very serious, including seizures and death."
"Aspartate and glutamate act as neurotransmitters in the brain by facilitating the transmission of information from neuron to neuron. Too much aspartate or glutamate in the brain kills certain neurons by allowing the influx of too much calcium into the cells. This influx triggers excessive amounts of free radicals, which kill the cells."
"The absorption of methanol into the body is sped up considerably when free methanol is ingested. Free methanol is created from aspartame when it is heated to above 86 Fahrenheit (30 Centigrade). This would occur when aspartame-containing product is improperly stored or when it is heated (e.g. as part of a "food" product such as Jello). Methanol breaks down into formaldehyde in the body. Formaldehyde is a deadly neurotoxin."
"DKP is a byproduct of aspartame metabolism. DKP has been implicated in the occurrence of brain tumors."
Then there's the phosphoric acid content in diet soda that erodes tooth enamel and promotes kidney stones.
the EPA can't force large manufacturing firms to curb their water usage or limit how much they're allowed to pollute.
EPA action is not the only means to that goal. I work for a "large manufacturing firm" and we work hard to reduce water usage and limit energy use. It's not because the suits suddenly got the green bug, I assure you. The reason we do this is because it saves money.
Increasing or introducing taxes means prices go up.
It also means that government revenue goes up, which leaves room for lawmakers to lower other taxes to compensate.
But that's not really the point. The production, sale and use of fossil fuels imposes an external cost on everyone in form of more severe weather - longer droughts, more floods, higher food prices, etc. Raising taxes on fossil fuels merely recovers the the cost they impose on society. To do otherwise would constitute a hidden subsidy of the fossil fuel industry at the expense of everyone else.
I am more curious about what the reply was to the undegrad student and how did they keep him quiet.
According to TFA the undergrad student was a she not a he. From the article:
The BBC aired a special on the Citicorp Center crisis, and one of its viewers was Diane Hartley. It turns out that she was the student in LeMessurier's story. She never spoke with LeMessurier; rather, she spoke with one of his junior staffers.
Hartley didn't know that her inquiry about how the building deals with quartering winds led to any action on LeMessurier's part. It was only after seeing the documentary that she began to learn about the impact that her undergraduate thesis had on the fate of Manhattan.
Tell them (your girlfriends) that the Paleo diet is the way to go - steak, bacon, fried veggies - good stuff.
The elephant in the room in the Paleo diet is no refined sugar. A real deal-breaker for most girls (and guys) - no dessert, pie, ice cream, cake, cookies, chocolates, sodas, candy, donuts, or anything else with sugar in the top 4 on the ingredient list.
Sadly, this is the one thing that makes the most difference, not just for weight loss, but in how you feel. I have much more energy since I cut out sugar. And my tastebuds have even come back - regular food tastes so much better now. I'm eating all the time, snacking on nuts and fruit constantly in between meals, and I'm gradually losing weight without a whole lot of exercise (I have a desk job).
I can't code but I can write a check. Post that bad boy to Kickstarter and auction off the low user ids. I would suggest the name 'slashdottir' but you'd get sued.
Principia-scientific is a vanity site run by Joseph E Postma, who is not a climate scientist and has never published a peer-reviewed paper on climate science. If that's the best you can do then you don't have a case.
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Sorry, no. The labor participation rate has been in a steady decline since 2008. Almost like we're in a depression or something.
Hey if it's too hot, nothing like a little nuclear winter to cool things off.
torture --n. 1. The act of inflicting excruciating pain, esp. as a means of punishment or coercion. - Random House College Dictionary
Taser is torture unless it's to avoid shooting someone. Police who torture should be prosecuted.
My one simple rule for ads:
0. Don't do anything that a dead-tree magazine can't do.
For me that about covers it since mimicking Windows system elements on my Linux box just makes the advertiser look incompetent.
Here are some people who lived on a hill near the ocean. Hope you do better than they did.
I love it. You trolled the mods with complete BS and got a +5 Informative.
Hey mods - parent should be +5 Funny.
Read the link again. The Red Cross made no such claim.
Oil subsidies are huge, a fact you can easily confirm with a few seconds of Googling. Here's what I found in less than 10 seconds:
http://priceofoil.org/fossil-f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.taxpayer.net/images...
I don't know if you're being funny or serious, but that's a common misconception so I'll assume you're being serious. The CO2 and methane that we animals spew all came directly from the atomsphere through the food chain or through breathing. It's a closed cycle - plants and animals take CO2 from the atmosphere, store it a short while, then release it back into the atmosphere. That closed cycle is the gold standard of sustainability, pretty much the opposite of "non-green".
From your link -
So only the first New York law was held unconstitutional. Son of Sam laws in place now seem to be okay.
Here's a recent link where she denies changing her position in any way. I'm afraid she's still a murdering bitch.
Actually, science has that one nailed .
The answers to your other perplexities are here .
I don't know if you meant to include Fedora but on all my Fedora installs the only member of the wheel group has been root. I believe the same is true of Centos but I don't have it installed anywhere right now to check.
I seem to recall stories at the time of the shoot-down that the F-14s operating from the dual-use airbase Flight 655 took off from would routinely set their IFF transponders to Mode III (Civilian). If the crew of the Vincennes was aware of that then the IFF response from Flight 655 would have looked no different from an F-14.
This doesn't excuse Capt. Rogers since the flight profile and heading were, as you say, non-threatening, but it does remove a useful piece of information that might have led to a different decision.
No, the data is accurate. It's a common method of cherry-picking used by deniers. All you have to do is pick a local maxima (like 1998) and run the average from there for a small period like 10 or 15 years.
A 15-year average doesn't mean anything - in climate science you need at least a 30 year average to see a meaningful trend.
Here's one you might like but it's not cheap at $325 each.
Oh, it's much worse than that!
A few choice quotes from the article:
Then there's the phosphoric acid content in diet soda that erodes tooth enamel and promotes kidney stones.
Needless to say, I don't drink diet sodas.
EPA action is not the only means to that goal. I work for a "large manufacturing firm" and we work hard to reduce water usage and limit energy use. It's not because the suits suddenly got the green bug, I assure you. The reason we do this is because it saves money.
It also means that government revenue goes up, which leaves room for lawmakers to lower other taxes to compensate.
But that's not really the point. The production, sale and use of fossil fuels imposes an external cost on everyone in form of more severe weather - longer droughts, more floods, higher food prices, etc. Raising taxes on fossil fuels merely recovers the the cost they impose on society. To do otherwise would constitute a hidden subsidy of the fossil fuel industry at the expense of everyone else.
According to TFA the undergrad student was a she not a he. From the article:
The elephant in the room in the Paleo diet is no refined sugar. A real deal-breaker for most girls (and guys) - no dessert, pie, ice cream, cake, cookies, chocolates, sodas, candy, donuts, or anything else with sugar in the top 4 on the ingredient list.
Sadly, this is the one thing that makes the most difference, not just for weight loss, but in how you feel. I have much more energy since I cut out sugar. And my tastebuds have even come back - regular food tastes so much better now. I'm eating all the time, snacking on nuts and fruit constantly in between meals, and I'm gradually losing weight without a whole lot of exercise (I have a desk job).
I can't code but I can write a check. Post that bad boy to Kickstarter and auction off the low user ids. I would suggest the name 'slashdottir' but you'd get sued.
As it turns out, your $250 "GE 26 Watt Energy Smart CFL - 100 Watt Replacement" bulb is now on sale for $13.40 each:
http://www.amazon.com/Watt-Energy-Smart-CFL-Replacement/dp/B000UYF80S
If we extrapolate, by tomorrow the price should be about 4 cents each.
Ok, here ya go. Not too old, very good shape and only $408,000!
And you go on to provide these two links:
http://principia-scientific.org/latest-news/330-ipcc-climate-reports-then-versus-now.html
http://principia-scientific.org/latest-news/369-ipcc-sea-level-exaggeration.html
Principia-scientific is a vanity site run by Joseph E Postma, who is not a climate scientist and has never published a peer-reviewed paper on climate science. If that's the best you can do then you don't have a case.