I would hardly equate liberating Europe after a sneak attack by the Japanese with parents wanting to know where their kids are. Or perhaps you think child accountability and genocide are about the same thing.
Because the physics of the problem are different between the local and global scenarios. For example, while the urban heating effect you mention is well established, you are assuming that such an effect is cumulative and does not further interact with the adacent weather. However, that same temperature increase will cause a local low pressure area, and associated updraft over the city. As the air rises, it will cool (due to the temperature inversion) and much of the thermal energy will the absorbed by water vapor in the air (water being an exceeding efficient heat sink). The rising column of air and low pressure will bring in local winds from the outlying (cooler) areas, effectively reducing the temperature in a natural feedback system. The whole point is that the regional and global weather system is infinitely more complex than the local weather, and making a generalization about local phenomena does not necessarily carry over to global phenomena.
R..I..G..H..T... but I am sure you are quick to interpret a century of temperature readings (most of which are wildly inaccurate by today's standards) to support your theories of global warming.
Exactly... any school child can tell you about ice-ages, periods of dramatic climate change and associated ocean levels. Why is it that those are natural but a 2 degree change in temperature must be caused by man?
Hey captain geography!..try looking at a map sometime.. you Iraqi oil fields are on the Kuwaiti border, you have to go through them to get to any town. But you can't be bothered with details that interfere with your bias, can you?
Exactly... just like Europe's policy of appeasement prior to WW2... and we know how well that worked.
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Your comments are laughable. American colonial occupation... there is a huge difference in having military bases in a country and being a colonial power.
Actually, if you do the trig you will see that even at GEO (~42000km) it takes at least three sats for global coverage (i.e about a third of the earth each). At MEO, where the GPS sats are, the coverage is substantially less, therefore "regional" denial is plausible.
No two minds are alike. I got through college and grad school by doing the first and last problems of each homework set. If you REALLY understand the material, then additional problems are just repetition which may or may not reenforce the material.
Duh...because his conclusion was that he favored Windows over Mac. Why wouldn't a Mac user claim bias? Welcome to how Windows users feel about every other article on Slashdot.
Exactly... using the shuttle for hauling things to orbit is extremely wasteful. The "point" of having a vehicle capable of lifting re-entry is so that you can bring hardware back should you need to. Lifting re-entry allows for a much more "genlte" (in terms of G-s) and accurate re-entry but adds significantly to the complexity and mass of the vehicle. Think of it: redundant hydraulic systems, landing gear systems (including extention systems), redundant brakes, control surfaces, flight control computers... all these things are needed for lifting re-entry but are effectively taking away from the payload mass of a similiarly sized ballistic re-entry vehicle.
Ironically, the Columbia was flying just such a mission that I am saying the shuttle should be used for as it was carrying a science lab. What we need are two vehicles. One heavy lift similiar to the Russian Proton for taking supplies and crew to and from ISS and the shuttle for long term science missions. Why incur unneccesary risk inherent with a more complex system (shuttle) than necessary.
Don't get me wrong, I am as big of a space program advocate as anyone,... if the shuttle demand was less, NASA would have more money available to fund a successor or dare I say it? a Mars mission?
I scanned throught the "evidence" in the report and it all seemed rather circumstantial. I randomly chose one and did a google search for that name and didn't find and additional details. IMHO, it almost seems that this is just being used as a convenient excuse to explain why some contracts have been lost to American companies. If this really was the case, why wouldn't American companies win ALL the contracts?
Excellent points. There should be nothing wrong with incidental surveillance. Now, if an agency starts rummaging through old surveillance data from many sources and puts a dosier together on me without a warrant, then there is a problem. But if I walk through the field of view of a camera aimed at a suspect for whom there is a survelliance warrant, my rights have not been violated. Now if they think there is a link between me and the suspect since I was in the vicinity... they would naturally need to get a warrant to continue survelliance focused on me.
Wow...ou convinced me... why else would a a company change a bid during a competitive bargaining. I am sure no company has ever changed their bid based on:
Replace "IETF" with "Microsoft" and you have thisslashdot story a whopping two weeks ago. Of course the slant then was how evil Microsoft was for daring to make people pay for email (which of course was not true... the article was about email accountability to reduce spam).
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I would hardly equate liberating Europe after a sneak attack by the Japanese with parents wanting to know where their kids are. Or perhaps you think child accountability and genocide are about the same thing.
Because the physics of the problem are different between the local and global scenarios. For example, while the urban heating effect you mention is well established, you are assuming that such an effect is cumulative and does not further interact with the adacent weather. However, that same temperature increase will cause a local low pressure area, and associated updraft over the city. As the air rises, it will cool (due to the temperature inversion) and much of the thermal energy will the absorbed by water vapor in the air (water being an exceeding efficient heat sink). The rising column of air and low pressure will bring in local winds from the outlying (cooler) areas, effectively reducing the temperature in a natural feedback system. The whole point is that the regional and global weather system is infinitely more complex than the local weather, and making a generalization about local phenomena does not necessarily carry over to global phenomena.
The difference is that we know that temperature changes can happen naturally on a global and dramatic scale. We do not know that man can do the same.
R..I..G..H..T... but I am sure you are quick to interpret a century of temperature readings (most of which are wildly inaccurate by today's standards) to support your theories of global warming.
I heard the sun also drives an SUV... that bastard.
Exactly... any school child can tell you about ice-ages, periods of dramatic climate change and associated ocean levels. Why is it that those are natural but a 2 degree change in temperature must be caused by man?
but Dvorak is an excellent composer... have you heard his Cello Concertos? I had no idea he did the "switch"!
Hey captain geography!..try looking at a map sometime.. you Iraqi oil fields are on the Kuwaiti border, you have to go through them to get to any town. But you can't be bothered with details that interfere with your bias, can you?
Exactly... just like Europe's policy of appeasement prior to WW2... and we know how well that worked.
Dude, Your comments are laughable. American colonial occupation... there is a huge difference in having military bases in a country and being a colonial power.
Actually, if you do the trig you will see that even at GEO (~42000km) it takes at least three sats for global coverage (i.e about a third of the earth each). At MEO, where the GPS sats are, the coverage is substantially less, therefore "regional" denial is plausible.
What type of debris would an EMP leave? :)
No two minds are alike. I got through college and grad school by doing the first and last problems of each homework set. If you REALLY understand the material, then additional problems are just repetition which may or may not reenforce the material.
See..they were trying to figure out the command line prompt to do that.
Start:Control Panel:Display:Appearance:Color Scheme:
Duh...because his conclusion was that he favored Windows over Mac. Why wouldn't a Mac user claim bias? Welcome to how Windows users feel about every other article on Slashdot.
Ironically, the Columbia was flying just such a mission that I am saying the shuttle should be used for as it was carrying a science lab. What we need are two vehicles. One heavy lift similiar to the Russian Proton for taking supplies and crew to and from ISS and the shuttle for long term science missions. Why incur unneccesary risk inherent with a more complex system (shuttle) than necessary.
Don't get me wrong, I am as big of a space program advocate as anyone,... if the shuttle demand was less, NASA would have more money available to fund a successor or dare I say it? a Mars mission?
I hope he had good birthing hips... that sounds uncomfortable.
I scanned throught the "evidence" in the report and it all seemed rather circumstantial. I randomly chose one and did a google search for that name and didn't find and additional details. IMHO, it almost seems that this is just being used as a convenient excuse to explain why some contracts have been lost to American companies. If this really was the case, why wouldn't American companies win ALL the contracts?
Excellent points. There should be nothing wrong with incidental surveillance. Now, if an agency starts rummaging through old surveillance data from many sources and puts a dosier together on me without a warrant, then there is a problem. But if I walk through the field of view of a camera aimed at a suspect for whom there is a survelliance warrant, my rights have not been violated. Now if they think there is a link between me and the suspect since I was in the vicinity... they would naturally need to get a warrant to continue survelliance focused on me.
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Replace "IETF" with "Microsoft" and you have thisslashdot story a whopping two weeks ago. Of course the slant then was how evil Microsoft was for daring to make people pay for email (which of course was not true... the article was about email accountability to reduce spam).
Alright, someone please tell me how my post was "trollish". Did I post too may facts?
Maybe you should look at your own link Take a close look at that picture. There are exactly two non-Russian European components.
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