Carl LunstrÃm is not really the kind of person that most people want to be associated with. He is well known for his connections to extreme right-wing groups. Apparently he donated money to Nationaldemokraterna, an extreme right-wing organization with connection to the Nazi movement. Several of there leaders have been convicted for various crimes. He was also a member of the racist organization Bevara Sverige Svenskt, BBS (Keep Sweden Swedish). There is more. Oh, and according to the prosecution he owns 40% of TPB.
Stora Enso has its headquarters in Finland, but it is both a Finnish and Swedish company. In 1998 Swedish Stora Kopparberg and Finnish Enso-Gutzeit Oy merged into Stora Enso. What is interesting about Stora Kopparberg ("great copper mountain") is that it started out as a copper mining company and is probably the oldest existing corporation in the world. The first shares for Stora came out in 1288.
If you also have hydromagnetic power you can pump the water back up, as a means of storage. From the Wikipedia article on hydromagnetic power:
Pumped storage hydroelectricity produces electricity to supply high peak demands by moving water between reservoirs at different elevations. At times of low electrical demand, excess generation capacity is used to pump water into the higher reservoir. When there is higher demand, water is released back into the lower reservoir through a turbine. Pumped storage schemes currently provide the only commercially important means of large-scale grid energy storage and improve the daily load factor of the generation system.
Thanks for the info. All that I was saying was that the main problem for Japan was that the government didn't seriously attempt to fix the bank-crisis for many years.
You can find historic examples of how to handle a financial like this one. In the early 90-ies Sweden experience a housing bubble similar to what has happened in the US. The state bailed out the banks, but unlike the US the state also took control over the banks. Here is NYT article about it. As a result the Swedish economy bounced back and most, if not all, of the money used to rescue the banks have been returned to the taxpayers. This was done by a right-wing government. This is in contrast to Japan where the Japanese government did nearly nothing in similar situation a few years before. Japans is still suffering the consequences of the resulting recession.
I was under the impression that these groups were more a collection of people, maybe even a business, rather than some political or territorial unit acting as a government.
The term unlawful combatant refers to civilians engaged in armed conflict.
This is from the Wikipedia article on unlawful combatants.
The Geneva Conventions apply in wars between two or more states. Article 5 of the GCIII states that the status of a detainee may be determined by a "competent tribunal." Until such time, he is to be treated as a prisoner of war. After a "competent tribunal" has determined his status, the "Detaining Power" may choose to accord the detained unlawful combatant the rights and privileges of a POW, as described in the Third Geneva Convention, but is not required to do so. An unlawful combatant who is not a national of a neutral State, and who is not a national of a co-belligerent State, retains rights and privileges under the Fourth Geneva Convention so that he must be "treated with humanity and, in case of trial, shall not be deprived of the rights of fair and regular trial."
In other words, if the US want to follow international law it should either treat these prisoner an normal criminals and give them a fair trial, or treat them as POW for which the Geneva Conventions apply. Now GWB signed a memorandum the Feb. 7 2002, stating that the Geneva Convention doesn't apply to al-Qaeda or the Taliban, but that is not international law, and hopefully just a parenthesis in US history books.
There is no evidence that the urban sprawl has had any biased effect on historic temperature records. The IPCC 2007 has the following to say about it:
Studies that have looked at hemispheric and global scales conclude that any urban-related trend is an order of magnitude smaller than decadal and longer time-scale trends evident in the series (e.g., Jones et al., 1990; Peterson et al., 1999). This result could partly be attributed to the omission from the gridded data set of a small number of sites (less than 1%) with clear urban-related warming trends. In a worldwide set of about 270 stations, Parker (2004, 2006) noted that warming trends in night minimum temperatures over the period 1950 to 2000 were not enhanced on calm nights, which would be the time most likely to be affected by urban warming. Thus, the global land warming trend discussed is very unlikely to be influenced significantly by increasing urbanisation (Parker, 2006).... Accordingly, this assessment adds the same level of urban warming uncertainty as in the TAR: 0.006 degrees C per decade since 1900 for land, and 0.002 degrees C per decade since 1900 for blended land with ocean, as ocean UHI is zero.
Its main conclusions are that one percent of global gross domestic product (GDP) per annum is required to be invested in order to avoid the worst effects of climate change, and that failure to do so could risk global GDP being up to twenty percent lower than it otherwise might be. Sternâ(TM)s report suggests that climate change threatens to be the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen, and it provides prescriptions including environmental taxes to minimize the economic and social disruptions. He states, "our actions over the coming few decades could create risks of major disruption to economic and social activity, later in this century and in the next, on a scale similar to those associated with the great wars and the economic depression of the first half of the 20th century." In June 2008 Stern increased the estimate to 2% of GDP to account for faster than expected climate change.
LTE first generation chips will be late 2010 even under optimistic predictions.
Really? There is supposed exists pre-production versions of Ericsson's
M700 platform for LTE during 2008. Ericsson mobile platforms are of
cause used by phones from SonyEricsson. The M700 will be in
full production during 2009, and products based on it should be out
during 2010. At least that is what have read.
Not just the Norwegian Telenor, but the Swedish & Finnish telco Teliasonera
are rolling out LTE in 2010. One of the driving factors is that LTE is
more cost-efficient that turbo-3G.
ComputerWorld has a good article
comparing the two competing technologies.
The NetworkWorld article mentions that according to ClearWire, LTE will
be out in 2011, but according to Telenor they will have in operation by
2010. The claims of both sides should of cause be taken with a grain of salt.
That's why I said current. If you take the amount of oil, gas and coal we burn per American/European, and multiply that by 1.2 billion Chinese and 1 billion Indians, we're going to need a whole lot more fossil fuels than there currently is in the world. It would also triple the world's CO2 emissions.
Don't equate standard of living with CO2 emission. Sweden has about a quarter of the
CO2 emissions per captia that the US has, yet it has a slightly higher
GDP per capita
than the US. Many European countries have significantly lower CO2 emission than the US.
Transparency international recently launched the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2008. CPI is supposed to be a measurement of the amount of corruption in the public sector. In the 2008 results Denmark, New Zealand and Sweden are at the top and Norway comes in at 14th place while the US at 18th.
Here is a somewhat old comparison of Java and C/C++ performance, done by the University of Southern California. Note that the article was written in 2003 and updated in 2004. Javas performance has improved significantly since then, most noticeably in JDK 1.6. This is the conclusion:
Java is now nearly equal to (or faster than) C++ on low-level and numeric benchmarks.
Oh no, not the Hansen mistake discovered by Steve McIntyre, again! This has been discussed before here on slashdot. The mistake only affected the US temperature curve, with very little impact on the global temperature. You can check Nasa's diagrams from early 2008 for the global trends, and the curves are definitely pointing upwards.
If Global Warming is true, is it really a problem?
Well if you are just looking for the economic consequences of global warming the Stern review must be the most well known work. Nicholas Stern was the chief economist of the World Bank, 2000-2003. Here is the Wikipedia summery:
Although not the first economic report on global warming, it is significant as the largest and most widely known and discussed report of its kind.
Its main conclusions are that one percent of global gross domestic product (GDP) per annum is required to be invested in order to avoid the worst effects of climate change, and that failure to do so could risk global GDP being up to twenty percent lower than it otherwise might be. Sternâ(TM)s report suggests that climate change threatens to be the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen, and it provides prescriptions including environmental taxes to minimize the economic and social disruptions. He states, "our actions over the coming few decades could create risks of major disruption to economic and social activity, later in this century and in the next, on a scale similar to those associated with the great wars and the economic depression of the first half of the 20th century." In June 2008 Stern increased the estimate to 2% of GNP to account for faster than expected climate change.
The Stern Review has been criticized by some economists, saying that Stern did not consider costs past 2200, that he used an incorrect discount rate in his calculations, and that stopping or significantly slowing climate change will require deep emission cuts everywhere. Other economists have supported Stern's approach, or argued that Stern's conclusions are reasonable, even if the method by which he reached them is open to criticism.
Yes, Lapland is the northern area of the countries you mentioned and the home of the Laplanders, one of the largest indigenous peoples in Europe. But be sure not to use the term Laplanders, since it is considered derogatory. The correct name is Sami. The Sami are well known for herding reindeer, so perhaps that is why Santa lives in Lapland?
"In American tradition, Santa lives on the North Pole. However, each Nordic country claims Santa's residence to be within their territory. In Denmark, he is told to live on Greenland. In Sweden, the town of Mora has a themepark named Tomteland. The national postal terminal in Tomteboda in Stockholm receives childrens' letters for santa. The Finnish town Rovaniemi has long been known in Finland as Santa's home, and has today a themepark called Santa Claus Village."
But the original, Saint Nicholas, came from Myra in what is now Turkey.
If the future is an integration of CPU and GPU, ATI might have been a necessary, if expensive, purchase for AMD. Also note that what AMD got was not just the ATI graphic cards, but also the chipsets. The support chipsets were always AMD's week spot.
You should be able to watch what happens from webcams near the Nort Pole station.
Now, if the North Pole does melt you you won't see much anymore from those cams, of cause.
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Carl LunstrÃm is not really the kind of person that most people want to be associated with. He is well known for his connections to extreme right-wing groups. Apparently he donated money to Nationaldemokraterna, an extreme right-wing organization with connection to the Nazi movement. Several of there leaders have been convicted for various crimes. He was also a member of the racist organization Bevara Sverige Svenskt, BBS (Keep Sweden Swedish). There is more. Oh, and according to the prosecution he owns 40% of TPB.
Stora Enso has its headquarters in Finland, but it is both a Finnish and Swedish company. In 1998 Swedish Stora Kopparberg and Finnish Enso-Gutzeit Oy merged into Stora Enso. What is interesting about Stora Kopparberg ("great copper mountain") is that it started out as a copper mining company and is probably the oldest existing corporation in the world. The first shares for Stora came out in 1288.
hydromagnetic => hydroelectric
Sigh. I blame the spellchecker.
If you also have hydromagnetic power you can pump the water back up, as a means of storage. From the Wikipedia article on hydromagnetic power:
Pumped storage hydroelectricity produces electricity to supply high peak demands by moving water between reservoirs at different elevations. At times of low electrical demand, excess generation capacity is used to pump water into the higher reservoir. When there is higher demand, water is released back into the lower reservoir through a turbine. Pumped storage schemes currently provide the only commercially important means of large-scale grid energy storage and improve the daily load factor of the generation system.
Thanks for the info. All that I was saying was that the main problem for Japan was that the government didn't seriously attempt to fix the bank-crisis for many years.
You can find historic examples of how to handle a financial like this one. In the early 90-ies Sweden experience a housing bubble similar to what has happened in the US. The state bailed out the banks, but unlike the US the state also took control over the banks. Here is NYT article about it. As a result the Swedish economy bounced back and most, if not all, of the money used to rescue the banks have been returned to the taxpayers. This was done by a right-wing government. This is in contrast to Japan where the Japanese government did nearly nothing in similar situation a few years before. Japans is still suffering the consequences of the resulting recession.
I was under the impression that these groups were more a collection of people, maybe even a business, rather than some political or territorial unit acting as a government.
The term unlawful combatant refers to civilians engaged in armed conflict.
This is from the Wikipedia article on unlawful combatants.
The Geneva Conventions apply in wars between two or more states. Article 5 of the GCIII states that the status of a detainee may be determined by a "competent tribunal." Until such time, he is to be treated as a prisoner of war. After a "competent tribunal" has determined his status, the "Detaining Power" may choose to accord the detained unlawful combatant the rights and privileges of a POW, as described in the Third Geneva Convention, but is not required to do so. An unlawful combatant who is not a national of a neutral State, and who is not a national of a co-belligerent State, retains rights and privileges under the Fourth Geneva Convention so that he must be "treated with humanity and, in case of trial, shall not be deprived of the rights of fair and regular trial."
In other words, if the US want to follow international law it should either treat these prisoner an normal criminals and give them a fair trial, or treat them as POW for which the Geneva Conventions apply. Now GWB signed a memorandum the Feb. 7 2002, stating that the Geneva Convention doesn't apply to al-Qaeda or the Taliban, but that is not international law, and hopefully just a parenthesis in US history books.
There is no evidence that the urban sprawl has had any biased effect on historic temperature records. The IPCC 2007 has the following to say about it:
Studies that have looked at hemispheric and global scales conclude that any urban-related trend is an order of magnitude smaller than decadal and longer time-scale trends evident in the series (e.g., Jones et al., 1990; Peterson et al., 1999). This result could partly be attributed to the omission from the gridded data set of a small number of sites (less than 1%) with clear urban-related warming trends. In a worldwide set of about 270 stations, Parker (2004, 2006) noted that warming trends in night minimum temperatures over the period 1950 to 2000 were not enhanced on calm nights, which would be the time most likely to be affected by urban warming. Thus, the global land warming trend discussed is very unlikely to be influenced significantly by increasing urbanisation (Parker, 2006). ... Accordingly, this assessment adds the same level of urban warming uncertainty as in the TAR: 0.006 degrees C per decade since 1900 for land, and 0.002 degrees C per decade since 1900 for blended land with ocean, as ocean UHI is zero.
Stern was the chief economist for the World Bank. Here is a quote from the Wikipedia article on the Stern Review.
Its main conclusions are that one percent of global gross domestic product (GDP) per annum is required to be invested in order to avoid the worst effects of climate change, and that failure to do so could risk global GDP being up to twenty percent lower than it otherwise might be. Sternâ(TM)s report suggests that climate change threatens to be the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen, and it provides prescriptions including environmental taxes to minimize the economic and social disruptions. He states, "our actions over the coming few decades could create risks of major disruption to economic and social activity, later in this century and in the next, on a scale similar to those associated with the great wars and the economic depression of the first half of the 20th century." In June 2008 Stern increased the estimate to 2% of GDP to account for faster than expected climate change.
Here are Nasa's global temperature curves.
There is a good article at Mozilla Links, about 3.1 beta 2.
LTE first generation chips will be late 2010 even under optimistic predictions.
Really? There is supposed exists pre-production versions of Ericsson's M700 platform for LTE during 2008. Ericsson mobile platforms are of cause used by phones from SonyEricsson. The M700 will be in full production during 2009, and products based on it should be out during 2010. At least that is what have read.
Not just the Norwegian Telenor, but the Swedish & Finnish telco Teliasonera are rolling out LTE in 2010. One of the driving factors is that LTE is more cost-efficient that turbo-3G.
The NetworkWorld article mentions that according to ClearWire, LTE will be out in 2011, but according to Telenor they will have in operation by 2010. The claims of both sides should of cause be taken with a grain of salt.
That's why I said current. If you take the amount of oil, gas and coal we burn per American/European, and multiply that by 1.2 billion Chinese and 1 billion Indians, we're going to need a whole lot more fossil fuels than there currently is in the world. It would also triple the world's CO2 emissions.
Don't equate standard of living with CO2 emission. Sweden has about a quarter of the CO2 emissions per captia that the US has, yet it has a slightly higher GDP per capita than the US. Many European countries have significantly lower CO2 emission than the US.
Transparency international recently launched the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2008. CPI is supposed to be a measurement of the amount of corruption in the public sector. In the 2008 results Denmark, New Zealand and Sweden are at the top and Norway comes in at 14th place while the US at 18th.
but never compared to C.
Here is a somewhat old comparison of Java and C/C++ performance, done by the University of Southern California. Note that the article was written in 2003 and updated in 2004. Javas performance has improved significantly since then, most noticeably in JDK 1.6. This is the conclusion:
Java is now nearly equal to (or faster than) C++ on low-level and numeric benchmarks.
artifact of coding mistakes
Oh no, not the Hansen mistake discovered by Steve McIntyre, again! This has been discussed before here on slashdot. The mistake only affected the US temperature curve, with very little impact on the global temperature. You can check Nasa's diagrams from early 2008 for the global trends, and the curves are definitely pointing upwards.
If Global Warming is true, is it really a problem?
Well if you are just looking for the economic consequences of global warming the Stern review must be the most well known work. Nicholas Stern was the chief economist of the World Bank, 2000-2003. Here is the Wikipedia summery:
Although not the first economic report on global warming, it is significant as the largest and most widely known and discussed report of its kind.
Its main conclusions are that one percent of global gross domestic product (GDP) per annum is required to be invested in order to avoid the worst effects of climate change, and that failure to do so could risk global GDP being up to twenty percent lower than it otherwise might be. Sternâ(TM)s report suggests that climate change threatens to be the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen, and it provides prescriptions including environmental taxes to minimize the economic and social disruptions. He states, "our actions over the coming few decades could create risks of major disruption to economic and social activity, later in this century and in the next, on a scale similar to those associated with the great wars and the economic depression of the first half of the 20th century." In June 2008 Stern increased the estimate to 2% of GNP to account for faster than expected climate change.
The Stern Review has been criticized by some economists, saying that Stern did not consider costs past 2200, that he used an incorrect discount rate in his calculations, and that stopping or significantly slowing climate change will require deep emission cuts everywhere. Other economists have supported Stern's approach, or argued that Stern's conclusions are reasonable, even if the method by which he reached them is open to criticism.
Yes, Lapland is the northern area of the countries you mentioned and the home of the Laplanders, one of the largest indigenous peoples in Europe. But be sure not to use the term Laplanders, since it is considered derogatory. The correct name is Sami. The Sami are well known for herding reindeer, so perhaps that is why Santa lives in Lapland?
"In American tradition, Santa lives on the North Pole. However, each Nordic country claims Santa's residence to be within their territory. In Denmark, he is told to live on Greenland. In Sweden, the town of Mora has a themepark named Tomteland. The national postal terminal in Tomteboda in Stockholm receives childrens' letters for santa. The Finnish town Rovaniemi has long been known in Finland as Santa's home, and has today a themepark called Santa Claus Village."
But the original, Saint Nicholas, came from Myra in what is now Turkey.
The medium is the message as some wise guy once put it.
That wise guy would be Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian philosopher who also coined the term "the global vilage".
"Marshall McLuhan, casual viewin', head buried in the sand." -- Genesis, Broadway Melody Of 1974 - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.
ATI was such a mistake
If the future is an integration of CPU and GPU, ATI might have been a necessary, if expensive, purchase for AMD. Also note that what AMD got was not just the ATI graphic cards, but also the chipsets. The support chipsets were always AMD's week spot.
You should be able to watch what happens from webcams near the Nort Pole station. Now, if the North Pole does melt you you won't see much anymore from those cams, of cause.
The move to Albania meant the US government could, "avoid having to answer in court for keeping innocent men in jail," lawyer Barbara Olshansky said.
I recall hearing an interview with them, where they sounded quite desperate about been stuck in Albania, never able to get back home.