Ever heard of the Carboniferous ? It's the period between 350 and 300 million years ago when the plants invented lignin, thus becoming trees, and the time when the first microorganisms became able to digest it. Dead trees that wouldn't rot accumulated over hundreds of meters of thickness. Those are the layers of carbons we now know as coal. And the over next 300 million another extra lot of plants accumulated and became petroleum.
My point is, it took 350 millions years for all that carbon to accumulate and we are burning it all and releasing it _all_ in the atmosphere in the span of 200 years. Doesn't that sound to you a little bit... fast ? Maybe ?
Full disclosure: I used to be a climate scientist, but now I work on experimental nuclear reactor designs because I think It's the only thing that'll get us out of this mess. Maybe.
...and the most violent winds, the 300km/h katabatic winds, come full blast from the south. But they just slide over the sea ice: it's flat so there's no resistance, no traction. I have plenty of info and pics on my site as I used to be a climate scientist, the kind that goes on the field to take measurements.
As someone who's seen sea-ice breakups in Antarctica, they don't happen when the temperature warms up, but when there's a storm in certain directions, usually from the north, leading to waves breaking and carrying away the ice quickly. Emperor penguin chicks pay a heavy tribute to those every few years.
I develop on Linux, and for when I need Windows I use XP in a virtual machine. Plenty good enough for only runnign an IDE. Today I had to touch Win7 for the first time because one of my apps wouldn't install. It felt like being raped by Fisher Price.
I remember from my long ago courses of optics that you can't simply block the light from a pinpoint source: it creates diffusion around the blocking object. How do they work around this ?
That's why the only reasonable course of action is to develop nuclear power _and_ green energy FAST in Europe to STOP giving money and incentives to Russia (and the middle east). Other things are just peacock posturing.
This, if you have a very isolated house. A friend of mine set up an extremely loud battery powered horn, fixed to the ceiling, so hard to reach, in his mostly uninhabited country house. Several times he came back to find the main door fractured but nothing stolen inside. He said that the braying is so loud it makes you puke if you stay more than a few seconds inside the house. Can't use that method in an apt building though !
Which makes me wonder though why we haven't actually been seeing any/many inventions making use of these principles to augment our own vision. For example, I can see that a physical analog for the goat's vision may have some application in the field of law enforcement, or vehicle HUDs or anything for that matter where a larger field of vision would be an advantage.
There's been a large construction in the street where I work for the last 2 years (a new tram). I keep seeing construction workers driving caterpillars and such while fiddling with their phones. This morning again I screamed at one. There are a lot of cyclists on this street (including me) and there's been two crushed to death so far.
I subscribe to french Linux Magazine and Linux Pratique, two mags from the same editor and I enjoy reading them. First of all they have lots of info that you'd have to fish around the net to find. And here you don't need to even search for it. It's always up to date (well, the current month, d'oh), unlike web pages. And it's a good way to find NEW information, things you've never heard of before. And also it's a break from the computer, allowing you to sit and think for a while. The first mag is more for admins and has very in depth long and very technical articles. The second one shows how to use various user programs or short scripts.
Since you ask how it works in other countries, I find that in France they've streamlined the process to make it the easiest possible. Unless you are self-employed, the state knows how much you make since all jobs have obligatory declarations. So you receive a form that already contains all your info and how much you owe. If you agree, you just scan a QR code present on the page. It takes you to a webpage that just ask for confirmation and that's it. It litterally takes 10 seconds to file. Then topay, you either have already setup automated retrieval thrice a year from your bank account, or receive a form with another QR code that asks for permission to retrieve one third of the sum from your account. That's it.
Things like kids (declared at birth), significant others (declared at weddings), buying houses (declared during the purchase), etc, are all known to the state and taken into account. Pretty easy in most cases.
I don't think there's much possibility to hack the system since to only option you have is to agree or not. And if not I guess you need to file manually.
Just an anecdote. One of my best friend was a poor kid with no formal education. He works as a janitor. But he's also one of the best coders around, having done tens of dynamic websites in the '90s, a mapmaker (better than the state maps) and plenty of other things that bring in extra money but usually just for friends. And he's also and above all a great guy.
Well, there was at least two attempted murders that I know off in Antarctica, google "McMurdo hammer incident" for one in '96. The other one was a cook in the '50s who put broken glass in the soup of a crewmate who would wake him up every night when noisily going to bed.
Am I the only one who, as a foreigner, has no idea who David Letterman is ? I've seen plenty of clips of gifs of Colbert on the 'Net though. He certainly is a lot more relevant than whoever Letterman is/was.
Well, in all honesty it depends on the CH. Above 6CH (10^(2*6)) there's hardly anything (that's already one part per trillion, nothing works at that low dose except maybe plutonium), and above 11CH you can be sure that there is less than one atom per mole according to Avogadro's number (~10^23). But the low CH such as 1 to 4 actually do contain something. The problem is that hardly any homeopathic 'remedy' contains those doses.
Designing a hermetic container that lasts for years is non-trivial
Huh ? My cheap plastic watch is hermetic to 4 atm, and for years. Plenty of things are. And for a HD you don't have to stand more than 1/3 atm of pressure differential, something trivial. Having used hard drives at high altitude and seen them die quickly, I always wondered why they don't simply seal the damn things with air at 1 atm inside.
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My point is, it took 350 millions years for all that carbon to accumulate and we are burning it all and releasing it _all_ in the atmosphere in the span of 200 years. Doesn't that sound to you a little bit... fast ? Maybe ?
Full disclosure: I used to be a climate scientist, but now I work on experimental nuclear reactor designs because I think It's the only thing that'll get us out of this mess. Maybe.
Most storms come from the west.
...and the most violent winds, the 300km/h katabatic winds, come full blast from the south. But they just slide over the sea ice: it's flat so there's no resistance, no traction. I have plenty of info and pics on my site as I used to be a climate scientist, the kind that goes on the field to take measurements.
As someone who's seen sea-ice breakups in Antarctica, they don't happen when the temperature warms up, but when there's a storm in certain directions, usually from the north, leading to waves breaking and carrying away the ice quickly. Emperor penguin chicks pay a heavy tribute to those every few years.
It's been good reading you.
I develop on Linux, and for when I need Windows I use XP in a virtual machine. Plenty good enough for only runnign an IDE. Today I had to touch Win7 for the first time because one of my apps wouldn't install. It felt like being raped by Fisher Price.
I remember from my long ago courses of optics that you can't simply block the light from a pinpoint source: it creates diffusion around the blocking object. How do they work around this ?
That's why the only reasonable course of action is to develop nuclear power _and_ green energy FAST in Europe to STOP giving money and incentives to Russia (and the middle east). Other things are just peacock posturing.
A loud noise sounds
This, if you have a very isolated house. A friend of mine set up an extremely loud battery powered horn, fixed to the ceiling, so hard to reach, in his mostly uninhabited country house. Several times he came back to find the main door fractured but nothing stolen inside. He said that the braying is so loud it makes you puke if you stay more than a few seconds inside the house. Can't use that method in an apt building though !
I'm as anti-gun as the next guy, but I'm sure there's quite a few people I'd enjoy shooting down. You just need to be picky.
How does having the serial # of your 6Tb hard drives helps you when it walks away with 20 years worth of family and work pictures ?
Which makes me wonder though why we haven't actually been seeing any/many inventions making use of these principles to augment our own vision. For example, I can see that a physical analog for the goat's vision may have some application in the field of law enforcement, or vehicle HUDs or anything for that matter where a larger field of vision would be an advantage.
...It's called a side mirror in your car !
I caught part of a documentary one time
Yeah, yeah, yeah...
There's been a large construction in the street where I work for the last 2 years (a new tram). I keep seeing construction workers driving caterpillars and such while fiddling with their phones. This morning again I screamed at one. There are a lot of cyclists on this street (including me) and there's been two crushed to death so far.
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Couple years ago there was a town where some pranksters had it seeded and growing everywhere, even in that plaza fountain in the middle of town hall.
I subscribe to french Linux Magazine and Linux Pratique, two mags from the same editor and I enjoy reading them. First of all they have lots of info that you'd have to fish around the net to find. And here you don't need to even search for it. It's always up to date (well, the current month, d'oh), unlike web pages. And it's a good way to find NEW information, things you've never heard of before. And also it's a break from the computer, allowing you to sit and think for a while. The first mag is more for admins and has very in depth long and very technical articles. The second one shows how to use various user programs or short scripts.
Things like kids (declared at birth), significant others (declared at weddings), buying houses (declared during the purchase), etc, are all known to the state and taken into account. Pretty easy in most cases.
I don't think there's much possibility to hack the system since to only option you have is to agree or not. And if not I guess you need to file manually.
Just an anecdote. One of my best friend was a poor kid with no formal education. He works as a janitor. But he's also one of the best coders around, having done tens of dynamic websites in the '90s, a mapmaker (better than the state maps) and plenty of other things that bring in extra money but usually just for friends. And he's also and above all a great guy.
In the context I described: he's all over the 'net making memes. Letterman isn't. Or I've never noticed.
Well, there was at least two attempted murders that I know off in Antarctica, google "McMurdo hammer incident" for one in '96. The other one was a cook in the '50s who put broken glass in the soup of a crewmate who would wake him up every night when noisily going to bed.
Am I the only one who, as a foreigner, has no idea who David Letterman is ? I've seen plenty of clips of gifs of Colbert on the 'Net though. He certainly is a lot more relevant than whoever Letterman is/was.
From my dim recollection, it's the CO2 in the air which gets in the water, acidifies it and make it more conducive by orders of magnitude.
Well, in all honesty it depends on the CH. Above 6CH (10^(2*6)) there's hardly anything (that's already one part per trillion, nothing works at that low dose except maybe plutonium), and above 11CH you can be sure that there is less than one atom per mole according to Avogadro's number (~10^23). But the low CH such as 1 to 4 actually do contain something. The problem is that hardly any homeopathic 'remedy' contains those doses.
Just type this (or variant) in a console: $ syndaemon -i 2 &
Designing a hermetic container that lasts for years is non-trivial
Huh ? My cheap plastic watch is hermetic to 4 atm, and for years. Plenty of things are. And for a HD you don't have to stand more than 1/3 atm of pressure differential, something trivial. Having used hard drives at high altitude and seen them die quickly, I always wondered why they don't simply seal the damn things with air at 1 atm inside.