in many of these suburbs backyard clotheslines have been banned as well. some people reading this will think I'm making it up. Others reading it will think that everywhere has these laws.
apparently the "logic" goes that only poor people don't use electric dryers in the desert, and that perceived perception lowers the property values for the neighbors.
live free or die? hell no! these chains have resale value.
It is arguably legal spread to this video / snuff films, but it is in truly terrible taste. My guess is that the IOC is more concerned with protecting the traumatized family and friends of the victim, and due to the disproportionate way laws are structured copyright is the best legal tool they have to throw at it. That is not to say that they are not total jerks and hyper-protective of their monopoly on Olympic images, but in this case you must give the benefit of the doubt that copyright is of secondary concern to stopping genuine cruelty.
"just because you can, doesn't mean you should" (aka "grow up")
> Why do they use just the last 200 years or so? Could it be because that > data happens to support a certain conclusion?
nah, I think it has more to do with the fact that this is the time frame we are actually living in and have to deal with. You can expand that 200 year window out to the remarkably stable holocene period & the development of agriculture and civilization if you like. Either way, we're headed for uncharted territory both in terms of temperature and stability. Looking at the first derivative is not a stupid thing to do, be it in economics or natural science.
Except of course that they aren't dodgy and they didn't fudge their data, as a handful of independent reviews have now shown. But the truth doesn't get the press like a "scandal" does. they did things like calibrate weather stations which over time had a city heat island grow up around them and were subsequently moved 500' up a mountain to the city observatory (temp drops with altitude).
one of the world-wide publicized weather stations in this brew-ha-ha is local and I've been to it many time, so I know both locations & history and "why they did it" is obvious; they did it to STOP the data (and so models) from being biased. (look ma! I can anecdote too!)
So they apply these corrections in a valid and above the board way, but it gets selectively promoted by those with vested interests, these misfacts are knowingly spread by Foxoco, and the nutcases all flip out and make lots of noise. And the tragedy is that good folks only get to hear the ruckus and assume the truth is somewhere half way in between the corporate nutjobs and the scientists. When really it is no where near half way in between, but rather skewed decidedly to one side.
I won't tell you what to mod or not mod, as I think that's lame, but I will use my +2 to suggest that more eyes look at the parent to this post which is currently hovering at +0 due to AC. There seem to be about a half-dozen +5s incorrectly complaining that this doesn't exist.
ATI release the free driver AND specifications which means that with work the free driver can get out of its crippled state.
i.e. with time the nVidia binary-only driver will only get worse (binary bit rot has a half-life of say 1.5 years), while the ATI OSS driver will only get better with time and is not locked to yesterday's Linux kernel or X11.
It is a choice of candy today, or no candy today but candy for the next month.
If these kind of errors are indicative of the standard by which scientific evidence is being gathered, then the public *should* lose faith in the claims of science.
dude, it's a simple typo in a document thousands of pages long which was voluntarily fixed and announced by the authors once someone noticed it.
shit happens, get over it.
Exactly why does science deserve to be put upon a pedestal unquestioned, anyway?
because unlike issues of culture, politics, or religion, it is both testable and fixable. "Perception dictates reality" doesn't cut it long-term in the scientific arena.
Chicago also levies "sin taxes" on certain products including cigarettes, soft drinks and--don't ask me why--bottled water.
bottled water because it is a completely useless waste of the local taxpayers' money which also contributes to the waste management problem. they are trying to legislate against stupidity. Many towns have banned bottled water completely.
the bottled water biz's business plan relies of laziness and fear. Widespread (and usually completely out of whack with reality) fear of the local water supply makes the local politicians look bad. Life Tip: never make your local politicians or local police look bad. You'll lose.
(outside of extremely rare areas with polluted bores (who should be getting it tankered in anyway) or during a few days of storm emergencies of course; then we are glad that the bottled water infrastructure is in place)
How do you map the last few branches of the tree, when tax rates do not map to anything less complicated than the lat/lon coordinates corresponding to the delivery address? Are counties/cities going to provide that insane GIS data set?
The US Census Bureau provides the TIGER dataset which maps street addresses to finer detail than the county level, and is free to all. It is kept updated on a constitutionally mandated time schedule.
NY has been pushing this idea for a while now. Most people don't realize that NYS now demands sales tax on any item purchased out of state for use or consumption within NYS. They passed the law a couple years ago without much fanfare and buried it in a small easily overlooked section of the NYS tax return. I imagine it's just lurking there until they find an easy way to track incoming parcels from amazon and QVC.
It's an issue, and has been an issue for a long time, if you are a business and you get hit with a tax audit. ping! It's a real favorite. NY is nothing. If you want to see real abuse of interstate commerce check out Rhode Island laws.
it is generally a bad idea to piss off people who have access to thermonuclear weapons and killer robots when I don't.
since this is/. I'll throw in a conspiracy theory + dumb meme: is the program really a CIA honeypot which just reports fake data? in the post 9/11 era, does your tracking software track you?
This is the problem with the whole argument right here. You have people that don't have the first clue what they're talking about telling people how they're supposed to do their job.
"Welcome to Slashdot, you must be new here."
(usually I find the whole meme thing as tired as any old dumb joke, but in this case it seems rather apt)
Smart but insecure mostly-guys attacking true experts in a broken effort to raise their own status among their peer group. It's the old young-gun-figher's or little-man's syndrome & certainly nothing new here... Well, it's better than the usual method of attacking the weak to show how strong you are.
also temperature shocks (like 1998 el nino) make the coral symbiosis into a parasitic situation and now-harmful zoanthids are expelled from the structure leading to "bleached coral sydrome". This dead coral has nothing to repair the small cracks & so breaks up after the next year or two of storms.
Basically the coral can't adapt fast enough and it may be 1000 years before it's back on track. By which time it has sunk far enough below the exponential decay of underwater sunlight not to regenerate back up to the surface with any great pace. Wave energy probably doesn't get below 100m depth, while the smallest amount of sunlight may make it down that far, so there is some hope for eventual regeneration.
yeah, it's better if we do nothing but get really drunk and mock the folks who are trying to do something to save your sorry ass.
It's the can-do attitude which made America what it is today!
We may not be able to alter the momentum for 50 years from now at this point, but we can do a lot to affect it 500 years from now, probably no less than saving civilization in the process. One thing is for sure, if you never try you'll never achieve anything.
Case in point: IBM listened|agreed to where he thought the market was going and is today, even in a crappy economy, making boat loads of cash; Sun Microsystems did not until the ship was already sinking fast. Based on repeated stellar past performance predicting how things would go (usually met with derision at the time), it is possible to accept that he has a deep understanding of "the situation" without buying into his notion of what we should then do about it.
Think what you will about RMS, but if the man was handing out stock tips (and indirectly he is) you'd be a fool to dismiss out of hand where he thought the market would be going in 3-5 years time.
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in many of these suburbs backyard clotheslines have been banned as well. some people reading this will think I'm making it up. Others reading it will think that everywhere has these laws.
apparently the "logic" goes that only poor people don't use electric dryers in the desert, and that perceived perception lowers the property values for the neighbors.
live free or die? hell no! these chains have resale value.
It is arguably legal spread to this video / snuff films, but it is in truly terrible taste. My guess is that the IOC is more concerned with protecting the traumatized family and friends of the victim, and due to the disproportionate way laws are structured copyright is the best legal tool they have to throw at it. That is not to say that they are not total jerks and hyper-protective of their monopoly on Olympic images, but in this case you must give the benefit of the doubt that copyright is of secondary concern to stopping genuine cruelty.
"just because you can, doesn't mean you should"
(aka "grow up")
> Why do they use just the last 200 years or so? Could it be because that
> data happens to support a certain conclusion?
nah, I think it has more to do with the fact that this is the time frame we are actually living in and have to deal with. You can expand that 200 year window out to the remarkably stable holocene period & the development of agriculture and civilization if you like. Either way, we're headed for uncharted territory both in terms of temperature and stability. Looking at the first derivative is not a stupid thing to do, be it in economics or natural science.
if you are reading this read the +0 anon parent comment. Debian did clear it with upstream, and upstream wrongly said it was ok.
Except of course that they aren't dodgy and they didn't fudge their data, as a handful of independent reviews have now shown. But the truth doesn't get the press like a "scandal" does. they did things like calibrate weather stations which over time had a city heat island grow up around them and were subsequently moved 500' up a mountain to the city observatory (temp drops with altitude).
one of the world-wide publicized weather stations in this brew-ha-ha is local and I've been to it many time, so I know both locations & history and "why they did it" is obvious; they did it to STOP the data (and so models) from being biased. (look ma! I can anecdote too!)
So they apply these corrections in a valid and above the board way, but it gets selectively promoted by those with vested interests, these misfacts are knowingly spread by Foxoco, and the nutcases all flip out and make lots of noise. And the tragedy is that good folks only get to hear the ruckus and assume the truth is somewhere half way in between the corporate nutjobs and the scientists. When really it is no where near half way in between, but rather skewed decidedly to one side.
I won't tell you what to mod or not mod, as I think that's lame, but I will use my +2 to suggest that more eyes look at the parent to this post which is currently hovering at +0 due to AC. There seem to be about a half-dozen +5s incorrectly complaining that this doesn't exist.
i.e. with time the nVidia binary-only driver will only get worse (binary bit rot has a half-life of say 1.5 years), while the ATI OSS driver will only get better with time and is not locked to yesterday's Linux kernel or X11.
It is a choice of candy today, or no candy today but candy for the next month.
dude, it's a simple typo in a document thousands of pages long which was voluntarily fixed and announced by the authors once someone noticed it.
shit happens, get over it.
because unlike issues of culture, politics, or religion, it is both testable and fixable. "Perception dictates reality" doesn't cut it long-term in the scientific arena.
yeah, but science has a much longer half-life.
bottled water because it is a completely useless waste of the local taxpayers' money which also contributes to the waste management problem. they are trying to legislate against stupidity. Many towns have banned bottled water completely.
the bottled water biz's business plan relies of laziness and fear. Widespread (and usually completely out of whack with reality) fear of the local water supply makes the local politicians look bad. Life Tip: never make your local politicians or local police look bad. You'll lose.
(outside of extremely rare areas with polluted bores (who should be getting it tankered in anyway) or during a few days of storm emergencies of course; then we are glad that the bottled water infrastructure is in place)
The US Census Bureau provides the TIGER dataset which maps street addresses to finer detail than the county level, and is free to all. It is kept updated on a constitutionally mandated time schedule.
It's an issue, and has been an issue for a long time, if you are a business and you get hit with a tax audit. ping! It's a real favorite.
NY is nothing. If you want to see real abuse of interstate commerce check out Rhode Island laws.
neither- I think he's being a troll, but I don't have the mod points to confirm it.
Interestingly if you change the search phrase to "unsafe exercise bike clearance" Target drops down to the fourth hit on the list.
If you haven't seen it, I recommend you rent the old black and white version of "High Noon" starring Gary Cooper. (no, not the wwJCd version)
The final scene mirrors this exact course of events very well.
(In case that is not enough to convince you to rent it, it also happens to be one of the best movies ever made.)
A good demonstration of one of the three reasons why I leave /. sigs turned on.
it is generally a bad idea to piss off people who have access to thermonuclear weapons and killer robots when I don't.
since this is /. I'll throw in a conspiracy theory + dumb meme: is the program really a CIA honeypot which just reports fake data? in the post 9/11 era, does your tracking software track you?
"Welcome to Slashdot, you must be new here."
(usually I find the whole meme thing as tired as any old dumb joke, but in this case it seems rather apt)
Smart but insecure mostly-guys attacking true experts in a broken effort to raise their own status among their peer group. It's the old young-gun-figher's
or little-man's syndrome & certainly nothing new here... Well, it's better than the usual method of attacking the weak to show how strong you are.
(too many double negatives makes $meme)
Is it possible to steal an intangible item? a thought? a song? a rainbow?
The solution is clear: steal musicians, German scientists, and my little ponies instead.
also temperature shocks (like 1998 el nino) make the coral symbiosis into a parasitic situation and now-harmful zoanthids are expelled from the structure leading to "bleached coral sydrome". This dead coral has nothing to repair the small cracks & so breaks up after the next year or two of storms.
Basically the coral can't adapt fast enough and it may be 1000 years before it's back on track. By which time it has sunk far enough below the exponential decay of underwater sunlight not to regenerate back up to the surface with any great pace. Wave energy probably doesn't get below 100m depth, while the smallest amount of sunlight may make it down that far, so there is some hope for eventual regeneration.
yeah, it's better if we do nothing but get really drunk and mock the folks who are trying to do something to save your sorry ass.
It's the can-do attitude which made America what it is today!
We may not be able to alter the momentum for 50 years from now at this point, but we can do a lot to affect it 500 years from now, probably no less than saving civilization in the process. One thing is for sure, if you never try you'll never achieve anything.
shit, is that TSR still hanging around? goodness!
If the above means anything to you, "apt-get install joe mc" will make you smile as well.
Case in point: IBM listened|agreed to where he thought the market was going and is today, even in a crappy economy, making boat loads of cash; Sun Microsystems did not until the ship was already sinking fast. Based on repeated stellar past performance predicting how things would go (usually met with derision at the time), it is possible to accept that he has a deep understanding of "the situation" without buying into his notion of what we should then do about it.
Think what you will about RMS, but if the man was handing out stock tips (and indirectly he is) you'd be a fool to dismiss out of hand where he thought the market would be going in 3-5 years time.
it got modded up because [s]he said what we all were thinking. positive groupthink vibes = reward.
it's really not that complicated.