If there was proof, he wouldn't be saying if the tipping point has been reached, would he? Too busy doing statistics to do logic?
Anyway, that article might not specifiy the levels before, but this one does. The key parts: "measurements that have been made since 1958... When he began,... 315 parts per million by volume (ppm); today... 376ppm." "Across all 46 years of Dr Keeling's measurements, the average annual CO2 rise has been 1.3ppm, although in recent decades it has gone up to about 1.6ppm. There have been several peaks, all associated with El Niño" [...] "Throughout the series those peaks have been followed by troughs, and there has been no annual increase in CO2 above 2ppm that has been sustained for more than a year. Until now. From 2001 to 2002, the increase was 2.08ppm (from 371.02 to 373.10); and from 2002 to 2003 the increase was 2.54ppm (from 373.10 to 375.64). Neither of these were El Niño years, and there has been no sudden leap in emissions."
Someone I know once had to drive across London with a gearbox that wouldn't come out of 3rd gear. Having a mechanical failure like that at the same time as the accelerator jam on does seem unlikely though - maybe the gearstick works though the same sort of electronic system as the throttle? (I've had an throttle jam partly open - the car was drivable, but you had to cut the ignition fast when stopped, since it idled at 6000rpm and climbing.)
Right now one of our family cars is dead (but being resurrected, I've ordered a replacement engine) and the other one is sick, and we're wondering if we can manage without one. If we do, I could justify the cost of something like that. For the moment I do cycle a few days a week (16 miles each way) on a conventional (upright) bike. With a headwind like today a faired recumbent would be very nice. (Addressing points elsewhere in the topic, I shower and change at work.)
Ubermensch appears to be the accepted English spelling, even if German does require Ue or an umlaut. http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?Ube rmensch http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?Ueb ermensch
(Googling for Uebermensch says "Did you mean: Ubermensch", googling for Ubermensch gives a definition link (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=ubermens ch).)
I'm not sure that the Irish see it that way. And the democratic process _in Northern Ireland_, which is part of the UK, isn't that stable. Overall of course the UK has had a stable system since before the US became independent - 1776 was after the English Civil War, the Restoration, and the Glorious Revolution.
"Great Britain" is debateable since the actual country has gone from being the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to being the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. I think Irish partition probably counts as "major unrest", even if it was never a threat to the UK democratic system. Iceland wasn't fully independent of Denmark until 1944, so that's arguable too.
Use with three different keys is actually quite common. The decrypt in the middle is for backward compatibility with single DES - a hardware 3DES implementation will do single DES if all three keys are the same. (So will a software implementation of course, but with hardware being able to just use the same stuff is more of a saving.)
The UK also has an offense of "Causing death through careless driving when unfit through drink" because careless driving while drunk isn't usually bad enough to count as "Dangerous driving". (And "Causing death by dangerous driving" itself isn't bad enough to be manslaughter.)
Close. A quick Google shows it was Ludwig Silberstein who said to Eddington at a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society that he must be one of three people who understood relativity, no mention of Einstein having said it first. http://home.att.net/~numericana/answer/hum or.htm#a necdotes
The Strident Trident is street legal entry to te Shell Eco-Marathon that has got 534mpg. (Might require registration, google cache left as an exercise for the reader.)
Are you sure that shouldn't be "might only support 250 lbs when there is a good 250lbs or so..."? Rope doesn't get weaker just because its part of a longer length, but its own weight can get significant.
And a Dalek is finally shown going up stairs in Remembrance of the Daleks. The BBC guide says "Although this is the first time that a Dalek is actually seen to ascend a flight of stairs, there is a scene in season two's The Chase: Journey into Terror in which such an occurrence is clearly implied; and season twenty-two's Revelation of the Daleks shows that both the Daleks and Davros are capable of hovering above the ground."
Absolutely. Because if they couldn't patent it, then obviously Microsoft would have kept this idea a trade secret and no-one else would ever benefit from it, whereas now, in return for a limited period of monopoly, it becomes publically available for everyone later.
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If there was proof, he wouldn't be saying if the tipping point has been reached, would he? Too busy doing statistics to do logic?
... When he began, ... 315 parts per million by volume (ppm); today ... 376ppm."
Anyway, that article might not specifiy the levels before, but this one does.
The key parts: "measurements that have been made since 1958
"Across all 46 years of Dr Keeling's measurements, the average annual CO2 rise has been 1.3ppm, although in recent decades it has gone up to about 1.6ppm.
There have been several peaks, all associated with El Niño"
[...]
"Throughout the series those peaks have been followed by troughs, and there has been no annual increase in CO2 above 2ppm that has been sustained for more than a year. Until now.
From 2001 to 2002, the increase was 2.08ppm (from 371.02 to 373.10); and from 2002 to 2003 the increase was 2.54ppm (from 373.10 to 375.64). Neither of these were El Niño years, and there has been no sudden leap in emissions."
Bikebiz article confirming that 1992 date.
You've got a chance of (slowly) stopping a car with the parking/emergency brake. Just not with the throttle jammed full on.
Someone I know once had to drive across London with a gearbox that wouldn't come out of 3rd gear. Having a mechanical failure like that at the same time as the accelerator jam on does seem unlikely though - maybe the gearstick works though the same sort of electronic system as the throttle?
(I've had an throttle jam partly open - the car was drivable, but you had to cut the ignition fast when stopped, since it idled at 6000rpm and climbing.)
Right now one of our family cars is dead (but being resurrected, I've ordered a replacement engine) and the other one is sick, and we're wondering if we can manage without one. If we do, I could justify the cost of something like that.
For the moment I do cycle a few days a week (16 miles each way) on a conventional (upright) bike. With a headwind like today a faired recumbent would be very nice.
(Addressing points elsewhere in the topic, I shower and change at work.)
Ubermensch appears to be the accepted English spelling, even if German does require Ue or an umlaut.e rmenschb ermensch
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http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?Ub
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?Ue
(Googling for Uebermensch says "Did you mean: Ubermensch", googling for Ubermensch gives a definition link (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=ubermen
I'm not sure that the Irish see it that way. And the democratic process _in Northern Ireland_, which is part of the UK, isn't that stable.
Overall of course the UK has had a stable system since before the US became independent - 1776 was after the English Civil War, the Restoration, and the Glorious Revolution.
"Great Britain" is debateable since the actual country has gone from being the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to being the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. I think Irish partition probably counts as "major unrest", even if it was never a threat to the UK democratic system.
Iceland wasn't fully independent of Denmark until 1944, so that's arguable too.
> It doesn't give you that wow-i-feel-GREAT feeling after riding it for a good distance.
It doesn't give you the _same_ wow-i-feel-GREAT feeling, but plenty of motorbikers seem to feel pretty good about it.
> Voldemort? I didn't realize he was running
You think Bush is smart enough to decide what he's going to do himself?
> Fusion is NOT LIKE IN SPIDERMAN 2
Well, it's like Spiderman 2 in that it potentially destroys cities, and unlike Spiderman 2 in that we have the sense not to do that so far.
Use with three different keys is actually quite common.
The decrypt in the middle is for backward compatibility with single DES - a hardware 3DES implementation will do single DES if all three keys are the same. (So will a software implementation of course, but with hardware being able to just use the same stuff is more of a saving.)
PKCS#11, for example, uses DES3 to mean three-key triple DES and DES2 to mean two-key triple DES.
The UK also has an offense of "Causing death through careless driving when unfit through drink" because careless driving while drunk isn't usually bad enough to count as "Dangerous driving". (And "Causing death by dangerous driving" itself isn't bad enough to be manslaughter.)
Close. A quick Google shows it was Ludwig Silberstein who said to Eddington at a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society that he must be one of three people who understood relativity, no mention of Einstein having said it first.m or.htm#a necdotes
http://home.att.net/~numericana/answer/hu
The Strident Trident is street legal entry to te Shell Eco-Marathon that has got 534mpg. (Might require registration, google cache left as an exercise for the reader.)
Are you sure that shouldn't be "might only support 250 lbs when there is a good 250lbs or so..."? Rope doesn't get weaker just because its part of a longer length, but its own weight can get significant.
They weren't robots, more of an exoskeleton/battlesuit. There was a living organism inside.
And a Dalek is finally shown going up stairs in Remembrance of the Daleks. The BBC guide says "Although this is the first time that a Dalek is actually seen to ascend a flight of stairs, there is a scene in season two's The Chase: Journey into Terror in which such an occurrence is clearly implied; and season twenty-two's Revelation of the Daleks shows that both the Daleks and Davros are capable of hovering above the ground."
> If I'm not mistaken VW is selling Lupo hybrid diesels in France/Germany. They get about 75MPG.
I wouldn't swear you are mistaken, but there is a non-hybrid Lupo that gets that.
I know Bush is doing a bad job, but I didn't think it had reached the point where an average individual was going to try killing him.
The problem with the C5 wasn't that it was an electric vehicle, it was that it was a crap electric vehicle.
If Asimov hadn't done that, then the post wouldn't have been funny.
Absolutely. Because if they couldn't patent it, then obviously Microsoft would have kept this idea a trade secret and no-one else would ever benefit from it, whereas now, in return for a limited period of monopoly, it becomes publically available for everyone later.
> This is the only thing that will curtail the (domestic) spam problem. Harsh, painful prison sentences.
You seem to have mispelled "Harsh, painful public executions".