Hell, tetris is the most violent game of all. The only think that exists in the universe is blocks, and your entire goal is to destroy them all. In fact it's essential to your very survival to constantly destroy everything in sight.
Under the new ICD10 system: Z725 High risk sexual behavior Z7251 High risk heterosexual behavior Z7252 High risk homosexual behavior Z7253 High risk bisexual behavior
Just to expand on that, I looked up the full titles for those codes: W5649xA Other contact with shark, initial encounter W902xxA Exposure to laser radiation, initial encounter
As for the stock market, we were considering your 2.5 million year AI experiment. Assuming we don't go extinct, and even making the wild leap to assume the stock market has some related form of descendant for 2.5 million continuous years, it would certainly be unrecognizable by any currently imaginable definition. I hardly think it safe to presume an "unrecognizable by any definition" system would continue to be compatible with the defined experiment.
And regarding humans evolution over the next few million years, I must again disagree with your unreasonably static assumptions for predicting the future:D
I see effectively zero possibility that a Homo-Habilis-to-Homo-Sapien sort of evolution could continue over the next few million years. Technological evolution outpaces biological evolution by many many orders of magnitude. I predict that we will abandon soft-squishy-death-prone DNA based bodies in well under a thousand years:)
While I support the case you are making, I can't resist raining on your parade with my own prediction that "the stock market" will cease to exist in a lot less than 2.5 - 3.5 million years. Chuckle.
Either humans will go extinct, or humans we will abandon a "stock market" system, or the "stock market" system will eventually be mutated or replaced to such point that it becomes unrecognizable.
So $383 million is more than the total income of 7626 dead-center middleclass American households.
I did a separate Google search to come up with an average of 2.63 persons per US household. So they are giving him a bonus equal to the entire GDP of a US city of over twenty thousand typical middle class Americans. And as the post title points out, that doesn't include his (unknown) paycheck.
The point of my earlier reply seems to have flown well over your head.
As far as I can tell the point of your previous post to illustrate "how not to apply percentages". A person getting 1% of the US GDP would be insanity beyond belief. A person getting 1% of the GDP of a country of 10 people would be in deep poverty. Equating the same percentage in the two case is horribly broken.
Your calculation was: Gross Domestic Product of USA = $14.66 trillion $383 million / $14.66 trillion = 0.0026% of GDP 0.0026% of Dominica's $376M GDP = $9823 $9823 / 10 years = $982
A more valid calculation for that case would be: Gross Domestic Product of USA = $14.66 trillion Population of US = 312 million income per person = $14.66 trillion / 312 million = $46,987 $383 million / $46,987 = one person getting 8151 shares of income
Gross Domestic Product Dominica $376M Population Dominica = 72500 income per person = $376M / 72500 = $5186 ($14 dollars a day) one person getting 8151 shares of income = $5186 * 8151 = $42 million
If you want to divide that over ten years, sure, it's someone getting a bonus of $4.2 million per year in relation to $5186 per person per year for everyone else. And if we're going to divide up the bonus over the ten years then we really need to add in whatever his yearly salary is.
And your comment about "talented" doesn't fly. A talented person can definitely earn many times the average income. But when someone in an income-$5186-per-person-nation is getting a $4.2 million bonus per year, or when someone in the $46,987-per-person-income-US is getting $38.3 million per year bonus, it's not because he's talented. It's because the economy is dysfunctional, and it's because he's got the political connections or billionaire-business connections to benefit from that economic dysfunction.
And furthermore, the $383 million bonus value is based on today's stock price remaining flat for ten years. A stock price that remains flat is downright rotten performance for a CEO. From 1900 through 2010 the Dow Jones had an average rate of return of 9.4% (in stock price and dividends). If he achieves a grossly lackluster 3% yearly increase in stock price it would make his bonus $514 million. Over a half-billion dollars. If he did an average CEO job his bonus would be $940 million. And when you add in his actually salary his pay for doing an average performance as CEO it would be over a billion dollars. Yeah, it's a billion+ dollars over ten years. But you still can't claim that pay scale for average stock performance reflects any legitimate or sane or economically healthy "talent" pay.
This is exactly the sort of thing that has been weakening the US economy. Look at this graph. Advancing technologies and efficiencies increase GDP over time, but almost exactly ZERO of that growth has made it into the pockets of the majority of Americans. The rising blue line shows increased economic production, and the difference between the red and blue lines shows that all growth is removed from the pockets of the majority of Americans and ALL being poured into a few ultra-wealthy pockets. That graph is showing the Paris-Hilton-Taxcuts, it's showing TrickleDownEconomics that never trickles down. It shows two dec
Don't make measles sound harmless either. Just because you and four of your friends happened to play russian roulette and came out fine doesn't mean russian roulette isn't seriously dangerous.
In healthy people with modern medical care the death rate is 3 per 1000. It is insanely infectious, 90% of unprotected people sharing a living space will be infected, with high risk of infection from casual or indirect contact. If an immunocompromized person is infected the fatality rate is about 30%. Measles also has a a significant risk of serious complications including brain damage, and permanent damage to vision or hearing upto and including deafness or blindness.
Rubella is a minor nuisance infection, at least as far as the direct infection itself. However it's a horrific disease when a pregnant woman is exposed (even if the woman herself is immunized!). If a pregnant woman is exposed to an infected person the virus will scoot right across the placenta and disrupt the developing fetus. When it doesn't outright kill the fetus (causing miscarriage), it results in horrific birth defects.
Mumps is mostly "merely" painful, except for the 30% chance it will infect the testicles of post-pubescent males. At which point it often results in sterility.
Vaccines have been so successful that most people have forgotten why we were so desperate to develop these vaccines in the first place.
As the grandparent said, and as you partially agreed, part of the "probleM' is that vaccines have been so successful that people are oblivious to just how nasty these diseases can be and why we were so desperate to develop vaccines for them.
You're right that Rubella is little more than a nuisance... in terms of the person directly infected. The part you are missing is that Rubella is a horrific disease in terms of pregnant women. Rubella scoots right across the placenta and disrupts the developing fetus. This results in either miscarriage or seriously nasty birth defects.
When the Rubella vaccine was first developed they first tried just vaccinating girls, but it was ineffective. Even a vaccinated pregnant woman would still pass the virus on to the fetus when she was exposed to it via the father (or other male) who was infected.
The problems is that children today receive too many vaccine injections
The problem today is that children aren't getting enough vaccine injections. We still don't have vaccines for AIDS, the common cold, and countess other diseases.
If I could get a vaccine for the common cold, I'd take it. And I'd give it to my kids. Sure the common cold isn't life threatening, but the misery of infection and the secondary eye-ear-throat infections and the disruption to school and work... they far outweigh the trivial nuisance of one more vaccination.
A crackpot&fraud doctor started the whole thing with bogus claims of a vaccine-autism link, then a gutter-level-tabloid papers hyped up that doctor's claims, then autism parents desperate for an explanation latched on to the story, and then the idiot mainstream press ran with it bringing the "controversy" to the general public. And now there's all this baseless woo that maybe there's something mysteriously dangerous about vaccines. This woo that there's some controversy and you can't trust anyone or anything (not even your doctor) because no one's really sure. And when parents feel unsure that there might some sort of danger, they of course base their decisions on "better safe than sorry". Except there was never anything to the story in the first place, and scientists have confirmed that vaccines are about the safest thing you'll ever face in life (and far safer than most of the foods you feed your kids), and the "better safe than sorry" worry over vaccines is putting their kids in danger.
I really wish the news would quite hyping "controversies" by grabbing a typical random scientist on one side and a crackpot on the other side and presenting a "debate" as if the two sides were equal... presenting the lone crackpot as if he were equally as credible as the other person representing the entire medical or scientific community.
Whatever happened to investigative journalism where a reporter pent the time and effort checking someone's credentials and checking claims and investigated the evidence and informing people which side is lying or not-credible? Hell, I'd be satisfied if they'd just start off by pointing out that one side represents mainstream scientists/doctors and mentioning that the other side is a small minority / fringe position generally rejected by mainstream professionals in the field. It takes no deep investigation or judgment to accurately identify majority view vs minority view.
Sorry if I got carried away ranting. I really just intended to explain the Rubella thing and my frustration at the whole anti-vaxxer movement just sorta spewed out:D
Right... like the way playing Russian Roulette "isn't terrible" because 5/6 people who play survive unharmed.
For a healthy individual with modern medical care the fatality rate is 3 in a thousand. It is insanely contagous, 90% of unprotected people sharing a living space will become infected and it can easily be passed with casual or indirect contact. The fatality rate is around 30% if an immunocompromised person becomes infected, and the fatality rate can be nearly that high for a malnourished individual with poor health care. Even in healthy individuals Measles has particularly high rates of serious complications including pneumonia, brain damage, and permanent damage to vision or hearing upto and including blindness or deafness.
Measles and Mumps "merely" elevates the risk of miscarriage for pregnant women, whereas Rubella causes high rates of miscarriages and severe birth defects.
But yeah, most people who get Measles survive with no permanent damage. It's not like it's the Plague. Oh wait, I think maybe I'd rather get the Plague than Measles. Nowadays we have antibiotics that can easily cure the Plague with little risk of death or complications. We have no cure or even treatment for Measles. All doctors can do is attempt to manage the symptoms.
Aside from it being greater than the GDP of quite a few small nations, it's more than the income of than 7626 median income US households. At 2.63 people per household that makes it the GDP of a city of over twenty thousand typical middleclass Americans.
Get some perspective, and try thinking before you post.
Perhaps you didn't get around to reading the second line of my post? (The one mentioning asphalt.) Either that or you're humor-blind. ColdWetDog's "apology" was a playful response to my comically feigned-indignation.
they're so condescending to everyone else
That's not true! We know we're not the only time zone on the planet! Most of us have been on a plane and everyone knows you have to adjust your watch three hours whenever you leave the city.
The planet isn't made of concrete (despite what New Yorkers think).
Christ! We are not IDIOTS. Stuff above ground like buildings and raised sidewalks are made of concrete. Any blind idiot knows the ground is made of asphalt.
2010 List by the CIA World Factbook: Gross Domestic Product of Niue $10mill Gross Domestic Product of Tuvalu $32mill Gross Domestic Product of Falkland Islands $105mill Gross Domestic Product of Kiribati $147mill Gross Domestic Product of Marshall Islands $161mill Gross Domestic Product of Palau $164mill Gross Domestic Product of Anguilla $175.4 Gross Domestic Product of Cook Islands $183 Gross Domestic Product of Sao Tome and Principe $196mill Gross Domestic Product of Federated States of Micronesia $238mill Gross Domestic Product of Tonga $363mill Gross Domestic Product of Dominica $376mill
Maybe mutations elsewhere are just an unwanted side effect. I can't see how that would be selected for.
When bacteria are in a starvation or other stress situation they do selectively increase their mutation rate. That can be a useful strategy given their rapid reproduction rate and their inability to move to a better environment. However I doubt that applies in higher animals. In stress situations the body may shut down some repair processes to conserve energy, or the body may crank up some potentially damaging processes to increase fight-or-flight performance. Stress-related mutations in humans would almost certainly be an undesired side effect.
385 ppm elemental mercury ingested once really isn't that dangerous.
Damn the ambiguities of the English language, heh. I can see how easy it is to read my post as a "just once" thing, but my intended meaning was to permanently replace his daily breakfast cereal with 385 ppm mercury.
He was discussing ppm CO2 in the atmosphere... even 5000 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere for just one day wouldn't be such a big deal. I considered it implied that the analogy was for a permanent every-day situation.
his biggest fallacy is the 385 ppm is a small part of a million, therefor no worth worrying about.
I propose we put 385 ppm mercury in his breakfast cereal.
In fact every time conservative asshats call for "deregulation" raising or eliminating EPA pollutant limits I fantasize about sending their kids toys and candy canes for Christmas.... ones with a lead & chromium based paint and emitting mercury fumes. The lead/chromium/mercury levels would exactly match the new higher limits they are proposing. And of course all such items would be clearly labels as conforming to those limits.
Of course I wouldn't actually want to poison innocent children for the asshattery of their parents, so I guess the toys and candy would have to be merely labeled as conforming to those higher limits without actually containing any such toxins. And technically the labels would still be correct... a zero-ppm-lead candy cane does indeed does indeed "conform" to whatever legal limit they had proposed.
So a release of genuine, authentic emails and files from a known, authentic, highly-respected member of the climatology community was 'manufactured'. How?
The emails weren't manufactured, the scandal was. US politicians investigated the emails, UK politicians investigated the emails, scientists investigated the emails, the university investigated the emails. They all determined that the scandal was bunk.
if anyone with an ounce of morals had been able to read the content of those emails they would have been duty-bound to attempt to derail Copenhagen.
As I said, scientists investigated the emails, the university investigated the emails. They all determined that the scandal was bunk.
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Hell, tetris is the most violent game of all.
The only think that exists in the universe is blocks, and your entire goal is to destroy them all. In fact it's essential to your very survival to constantly destroy everything in sight.
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It fun to out verb.
Whoa, seriously? I had no idea verb was gay.
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Evil is relativistic.
Good travels at a leisurely pace, but evil travels at damn near the speed of light :D
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Four out of five dentists agree.
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No, I'm not some spaz looser who fell down and almost drowned while attempting to water ski. And I can prove it. Here's my medical paper work:
V9227XA Drowning and submersion due to being washed overboard from water-skis, initial encounter
I was washed overboard!
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Citation needed.... can't find it in the list
The Wikipedia code tables are rather incomplete. icd10madeeasy.com appears to have complete listings.
Under the old ICD9 system:
V692 High-risk sexual behavr
Under the new ICD10 system:
Z725 High risk sexual behavior
Z7251 High risk heterosexual behavior
Z7252 High risk homosexual behavior
Z7253 High risk bisexual behavior
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Just to expand on that, I looked up the full titles for those codes:
W5649xA Other contact with shark, initial encounter
W902xxA Exposure to laser radiation, initial encounter
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Purple button at top center...
Warning: do not attempt to plug headphone jack into testicle.
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As for the stock market, we were considering your 2.5 million year AI experiment. Assuming we don't go extinct, and even making the wild leap to assume the stock market has some related form of descendant for 2.5 million continuous years, it would certainly be unrecognizable by any currently imaginable definition. I hardly think it safe to presume an "unrecognizable by any definition" system would continue to be compatible with the defined experiment.
And regarding humans evolution over the next few million years, I must again disagree with your unreasonably static assumptions for predicting the future :D
I see effectively zero possibility that a Homo-Habilis-to-Homo-Sapien sort of evolution could continue over the next few million years. Technological evolution outpaces biological evolution by many many orders of magnitude. I predict that we will abandon soft-squishy-death-prone DNA based bodies in well under a thousand years :)
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While I support the case you are making, I can't resist raining on your parade with my own prediction that "the stock market" will cease to exist in a lot less than 2.5 - 3.5 million years. Chuckle.
Either humans will go extinct, or humans we will abandon a "stock market" system, or the "stock market" system will eventually be mutated or replaced to such point that it becomes unrecognizable.
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My source is official US census data.
Median household income, 2009 $50,221
$383,000,000 / $50221 = 7626.3
So $383 million is more than the total income of 7626 dead-center middleclass American households.
I did a separate Google search to come up with an average of 2.63 persons per US household. So they are giving him a bonus equal to the entire GDP of a US city of over twenty thousand typical middle class Americans. And as the post title points out, that doesn't include his (unknown) paycheck.
The point of my earlier reply seems to have flown well over your head.
As far as I can tell the point of your previous post to illustrate "how not to apply percentages". A person getting 1% of the US GDP would be insanity beyond belief. A person getting 1% of the GDP of a country of 10 people would be in deep poverty. Equating the same percentage in the two case is horribly broken.
Your calculation was:
Gross Domestic Product of USA = $14.66 trillion
$383 million / $14.66 trillion = 0.0026% of GDP
0.0026% of Dominica's $376M GDP = $9823
$9823 / 10 years = $982
A more valid calculation for that case would be:
Gross Domestic Product of USA = $14.66 trillion
Population of US = 312 million
income per person = $14.66 trillion / 312 million = $46,987
$383 million / $46,987 = one person getting 8151 shares of income
Gross Domestic Product Dominica $376M
Population Dominica = 72500
income per person = $376M / 72500 = $5186 ($14 dollars a day)
one person getting 8151 shares of income = $5186 * 8151 = $42 million
If you want to divide that over ten years, sure, it's someone getting a bonus of $4.2 million per year in relation to $5186 per person per year for everyone else. And if we're going to divide up the bonus over the ten years then we really need to add in whatever his yearly salary is.
And your comment about "talented" doesn't fly. A talented person can definitely earn many times the average income. But when someone in an income-$5186-per-person-nation is getting a $4.2 million bonus per year, or when someone in the $46,987-per-person-income-US is getting $38.3 million per year bonus, it's not because he's talented. It's because the economy is dysfunctional, and it's because he's got the political connections or billionaire-business connections to benefit from that economic dysfunction.
And furthermore, the $383 million bonus value is based on today's stock price remaining flat for ten years. A stock price that remains flat is downright rotten performance for a CEO. From 1900 through 2010 the Dow Jones had an average rate of return of 9.4% (in stock price and dividends). If he achieves a grossly lackluster 3% yearly increase in stock price it would make his bonus $514 million. Over a half-billion dollars. If he did an average CEO job his bonus would be $940 million. And when you add in his actually salary his pay for doing an average performance as CEO it would be over a billion dollars. Yeah, it's a billion+ dollars over ten years. But you still can't claim that pay scale for average stock performance reflects any legitimate or sane or economically healthy "talent" pay.
This is exactly the sort of thing that has been weakening the US economy. Look at this graph. Advancing technologies and efficiencies increase GDP over time, but almost exactly ZERO of that growth has made it into the pockets of the majority of Americans. The rising blue line shows increased economic production, and the difference between the red and blue lines shows that all growth is removed from the pockets of the majority of Americans and ALL being poured into a few ultra-wealthy pockets. That graph is showing the Paris-Hilton-Taxcuts, it's showing TrickleDownEconomics that never trickles down. It shows two dec
Don't make measles sound harmless either. Just because you and four of your friends happened to play russian roulette and came out fine doesn't mean russian roulette isn't seriously dangerous.
In healthy people with modern medical care the death rate is 3 per 1000. It is insanely infectious, 90% of unprotected people sharing a living space will be infected, with high risk of infection from casual or indirect contact. If an immunocompromized person is infected the fatality rate is about 30%. Measles also has a a significant risk of serious complications including brain damage, and permanent damage to vision or hearing upto and including deafness or blindness.
Rubella is a minor nuisance infection, at least as far as the direct infection itself. However it's a horrific disease when a pregnant woman is exposed (even if the woman herself is immunized!). If a pregnant woman is exposed to an infected person the virus will scoot right across the placenta and disrupt the developing fetus. When it doesn't outright kill the fetus (causing miscarriage), it results in horrific birth defects.
Mumps is mostly "merely" painful, except for the 30% chance it will infect the testicles of post-pubescent males. At which point it often results in sterility.
Vaccines have been so successful that most people have forgotten why we were so desperate to develop these vaccines in the first place.
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As the grandparent said, and as you partially agreed, part of the "probleM' is that vaccines have been so successful that people are oblivious to just how nasty these diseases can be and why we were so desperate to develop vaccines for them.
You're right that Rubella is little more than a nuisance... in terms of the person directly infected. The part you are missing is that Rubella is a horrific disease in terms of pregnant women. Rubella scoots right across the placenta and disrupts the developing fetus. This results in either miscarriage or seriously nasty birth defects.
When the Rubella vaccine was first developed they first tried just vaccinating girls, but it was ineffective. Even a vaccinated pregnant woman would still pass the virus on to the fetus when she was exposed to it via the father (or other male) who was infected.
The problems is that children today receive too many vaccine injections
The problem today is that children aren't getting enough vaccine injections. We still don't have vaccines for AIDS, the common cold, and countess other diseases.
If I could get a vaccine for the common cold, I'd take it. And I'd give it to my kids. Sure the common cold isn't life threatening, but the misery of infection and the secondary eye-ear-throat infections and the disruption to school and work... they far outweigh the trivial nuisance of one more vaccination.
A crackpot&fraud doctor started the whole thing with bogus claims of a vaccine-autism link, then a gutter-level-tabloid papers hyped up that doctor's claims, then autism parents desperate for an explanation latched on to the story, and then the idiot mainstream press ran with it bringing the "controversy" to the general public. And now there's all this baseless woo that maybe there's something mysteriously dangerous about vaccines. This woo that there's some controversy and you can't trust anyone or anything (not even your doctor) because no one's really sure. And when parents feel unsure that there might some sort of danger, they of course base their decisions on "better safe than sorry". Except there was never anything to the story in the first place, and scientists have confirmed that vaccines are about the safest thing you'll ever face in life (and far safer than most of the foods you feed your kids), and the "better safe than sorry" worry over vaccines is putting their kids in danger.
I really wish the news would quite hyping "controversies" by grabbing a typical random scientist on one side and a crackpot on the other side and presenting a "debate" as if the two sides were equal... presenting the lone crackpot as if he were equally as credible as the other person representing the entire medical or scientific community.
Whatever happened to investigative journalism where a reporter pent the time and effort checking someone's credentials and checking claims and investigated the evidence and informing people which side is lying or not-credible? Hell, I'd be satisfied if they'd just start off by pointing out that one side represents mainstream scientists/doctors and mentioning that the other side is a small minority / fringe position generally rejected by mainstream professionals in the field. It takes no deep investigation or judgment to accurately identify majority view vs minority view.
Sorry if I got carried away ranting. I really just intended to explain the Rubella thing and my frustration at the whole anti-vaxxer movement just sorta spewed out :D
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Measles isn't terrible.
Right... like the way playing Russian Roulette "isn't terrible" because 5/6 people who play survive unharmed.
For a healthy individual with modern medical care the fatality rate is 3 in a thousand. It is insanely contagous, 90% of unprotected people sharing a living space will become infected and it can easily be passed with casual or indirect contact. The fatality rate is around 30% if an immunocompromised person becomes infected, and the fatality rate can be nearly that high for a malnourished individual with poor health care. Even in healthy individuals Measles has particularly high rates of serious complications including pneumonia, brain damage, and permanent damage to vision or hearing upto and including blindness or deafness.
Measles and Mumps "merely" elevates the risk of miscarriage for pregnant women, whereas Rubella causes high rates of miscarriages and severe birth defects.
But yeah, most people who get Measles survive with no permanent damage. It's not like it's the Plague. Oh wait, I think maybe I'd rather get the Plague than Measles. Nowadays we have antibiotics that can easily cure the Plague with little risk of death or complications. We have no cure or even treatment for Measles. All doctors can do is attempt to manage the symptoms.
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Sigh.
Aside from it being greater than the GDP of quite a few small nations, it's more than the income of than 7626 median income US households. At 2.63 people per household that makes it the GDP of a city of over twenty thousand typical middleclass Americans.
Get some perspective, and try thinking before you post.
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Perhaps you didn't get around to reading the second line of my post? (The one mentioning asphalt.) Either that or you're humor-blind. ColdWetDog's "apology" was a playful response to my comically feigned-indignation.
they're so condescending to everyone else
That's not true! We know we're not the only time zone on the planet! Most of us have been on a plane and everyone knows you have to adjust your watch three hours whenever you leave the city.
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Hamza.com may have below bargain basement low low prices, but at 1mm per hour their delivery service sucks worse than a vacuum cleaner set to "blow".
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The planet isn't made of concrete (despite what New Yorkers think).
Christ! We are not IDIOTS.
Stuff above ground like buildings and raised sidewalks are made of concrete. Any blind idiot knows the ground is made of asphalt.
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2010 List by the CIA World Factbook:
Gross Domestic Product of Niue $10mill
Gross Domestic Product of Tuvalu $32mill
Gross Domestic Product of Falkland Islands $105mill
Gross Domestic Product of Kiribati $147mill
Gross Domestic Product of Marshall Islands $161mill
Gross Domestic Product of Palau $164mill
Gross Domestic Product of Anguilla $175.4
Gross Domestic Product of Cook Islands $183
Gross Domestic Product of Sao Tome and Principe $196mill
Gross Domestic Product of Federated States of Micronesia $238mill
Gross Domestic Product of Tonga $363mill
Gross Domestic Product of Dominica $376mill
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Maybe mutations elsewhere are just an unwanted side effect. I can't see how that would be selected for.
When bacteria are in a starvation or other stress situation they do selectively increase their mutation rate. That can be a useful strategy given their rapid reproduction rate and their inability to move to a better environment. However I doubt that applies in higher animals. In stress situations the body may shut down some repair processes to conserve energy, or the body may crank up some potentially damaging processes to increase fight-or-flight performance. Stress-related mutations in humans would almost certainly be an undesired side effect.
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385 ppm elemental mercury ingested once really isn't that dangerous.
Damn the ambiguities of the English language, heh. I can see how easy it is to read my post as a "just once" thing, but my intended meaning was to permanently replace his daily breakfast cereal with 385 ppm mercury.
He was discussing ppm CO2 in the atmosphere... even 5000 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere for just one day wouldn't be such a big deal. I considered it implied that the analogy was for a permanent every-day situation.
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his biggest fallacy is the 385 ppm is a small part of a million, therefor no worth worrying about.
I propose we put 385 ppm mercury in his breakfast cereal.
In fact every time conservative asshats call for "deregulation" raising or eliminating EPA pollutant limits I fantasize about sending their kids toys and candy canes for Christmas.... ones with a lead & chromium based paint and emitting mercury fumes. The lead/chromium/mercury levels would exactly match the new higher limits they are proposing. And of course all such items would be clearly labels as conforming to those limits.
Of course I wouldn't actually want to poison innocent children for the asshattery of their parents, so I guess the toys and candy would have to be merely labeled as conforming to those higher limits without actually containing any such toxins. And technically the labels would still be correct... a zero-ppm-lead candy cane does indeed does indeed "conform" to whatever legal limit they had proposed.
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Why does everyone that insists on using actual, falsifiable science suddenly become a denier or a "Big Oil, anti-science, right wing"?
Because everyone insisting on using actual, falsifiable science is denying the vast body of actual, falsifiable science.
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So a release of genuine, authentic emails and files from a known, authentic, highly-respected member of the climatology community was 'manufactured'. How?
The emails weren't manufactured, the scandal was.
US politicians investigated the emails, UK politicians investigated the emails, scientists investigated the emails, the university investigated the emails. They all determined that the scandal was bunk.
if anyone with an ounce of morals had been able to read the content of those emails they would have been duty-bound to attempt to derail Copenhagen.
As I said, scientists investigated the emails, the university investigated the emails. They all determined that the scandal was bunk.
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I'm a Republican, both you and your "science" are full of shit, check out this video I just found!
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