They had a 5.7 in the East Midlands of the UK in the 1950's. A child in Derby was injured by a falling chimney. So the idea of Slashdot getting excited by a 5.2 in California - slow day is it?
Hmm, pondered the argument over the name, and frankly I don't care. Bardquote -
What 's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
The problem is kids copying it. There used to be an advert in the UK for a soft drink where a fat orange guy ran up behind someone and slapped them around the face. Several perforated eardrums later, the ad was pulled. Basically, there are enough dumb kids around to cause trouble.
Surely to be 100% secure means not connected to the internet, the hard drives erased, the hard drives melted down, and the whole lot buried in an unmarked landfill site at an undisclosed location.
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realise. I thought purchasing the series in the cassette format meant I legally owned that copy. I didn't realise when they released the CD version I'd have to buy a new copy. Maybe they had a EULA on it I didn't read. And of course, the BBC never released the Hitch-hiker's guide in VHS format, so I couldn't have bought them either (well, admittedly I didn't, but I'm assuming the relative who bought them for me for Christmas did), and the two videos on my shelf in the original packaging (albeit a bit battered) are an illusion of my addled mind.
This is sarcasm by the way.
And it's a shambles if they are releasing a DVD that doesn't include the best version of HHGTTG when it easily could, and would have made it the definitive collection.
It's since been pointed out elsewhere that I misunderstood the Amazon bit - apparently it doesn't contain a recording of the Radio Series, it contains a documentary about the recording of the radio series.
Really? Well, this is what I get for believing an Amazon page. Invent a 'just plain wrong' mod and hit me with it.
It not being on there is a shambles, the Beeb should be ashamed of themselves.
I haven't bought the DVD, as I've got all that stuff already (that is if the VHS and audio tapes haven't disintegrated)
Yeah, you're allowed free speech. But if you start shouting it outside my bedroom window at three in the morning, expect the police to show up and charge you with disturbing the peace. If your free speech involves handing a five year old a gun and telling them it would be fun to shoot another kid, well I hope they lock you up for life.
If he'd just written the program, he shouldn't be in jail. If he'd written the program and put it on a website detailing that this would be a dangerous virus and why, and someone else then released it, well he could claim that his actions should be protected under free speech. But he wrote the virus and set it on others, knowing it would do damage. And for that, he deserves to be locked up.
That's not the worst of it. Look in the cycle lock with the security card gate. See the rack with the big hole in it? That was where I locked my bike. With multiple locks. In daylight. Yes, next to the busy carpark. By a thief so confident he wouldn't get challenged despite hacking away at the rack and my bike locks that he was willing to go into a bike lock-up with only one exit.
University security are spending all their time driving around in their little vans rather than do their blasted jobs. Oh, and they refused to send out an email warning people to keep an eye out for the little scumbag who's stealing the bikes. So because of that (and the fact that people plainly can't be bothered to report seeing this thief in action) there isn't a single safe place on campus to lock a bike.
Of course, what I'd like to see now is a decoy bike that when stolen, triggers an explosive charge that sends a heavy spike hurtling up the saddle column.
No, you're just reacting to the media-explained chinese whisper. The real question is whether singularities exist or not. The gravastar theory is merely arguing that the gravitational collapse would be halted before this infinitely extreme point is reached.
But seriously if theories other than creationism aren't internally coherant then there is no strong case against spontaneous creation.
What, like being sneezed out by the Great Green Arkleseizure?
Seriously, just because a theory is shown to be incomplete, doesn't mean you can throw all physics away. We may not be able to describe gravity in the most fundamental terms, but that doesn't mean we should believe that apples are thrown down from the trees by invisible elves.
Possibly pure pedantry, but the term is branes, not membranes. Membranes are the 2-dimensional subset of branes, which are high-dimensional objects. More specifically, a membrane could also be called a two-brane, a string is a one-brane, and a point is a zero-brane.
You are aware you have just accused large numbers of scientists of professional fraud by claiming that they are using 'fictional data'? Accusing them of misinterpreting the data is one thing, but you appear to be claiming they are deliberately making their raw data up.
Unless you can prove this, you'll just look like a conspiracy nut.
And my analogy isn't flawed, it is your understanding of it. CO2 changes definitely haven't been the sole cause of all the previous fluctuations, but that doesn't mean that therefore they cannot be a major contributor to the current temperature increase, or indeed any increase ever.
Your comment on vegetation is also puzzling - vegetation tends to respond to climate change, rather than start climate change in the first place. As most vegetation changes currently occuring are due to either mans activities or local climate change, I fail to see how vegetation change lets mankind off the hook.
But if it was an increase in solar output, wouldn't the upper atmosphere also be warming? The last report I saw on this (admittedly a couple of years ago) was a NASA one which didn't detect this happening. As for your comment that the temperature has 'levelled out recently' - the previous changes in temperature were large over millions of years, but over the scale of hundreds the rate of change was not larger than we are seeing today. Climate changes due to the formation of the Tibetan plateau and the movement of Antarctica to the south pole were quite slow processes, even if the eventual change in temperature was large.
Finally, just because things have happened before, it doesn't mean you should be happy to have them happen while you're around. Hey, we've had major recessions before, why should the economists try to avoid one, just because millions of people worldwide will lose their jobs?
Just because CO2 doesn't explain all climate changes in the past, it doesn't mean that CO2 can't have any effect on the climate at all. That's like saying if you can't explain all lumberjack injuries with axe wounds, lumberjacks are invulnerable to axes.
In theory, CO2 definitely can affect the environment, and anyone who denies that is a crackpot. Whether it is currently causing the environment to change is, sadly, not completely clear because after all, the climate is very complicated.
To some extent, that's an outdated Malthusian theory. Population doesn't inevitably expand, and you don't have to be particularly wealthy to have near zero growth (look at the population growth rate in Russia). Education is the key thing, not forced vasectomies. Educated people have less children, and educating women is the most effective way of cutting the birth rate. They are also quite capable of being self-reliant, the problem is they often don't get the chance. As for money, most of the money the third world makes goes straight to us in debt payment. They are growing cash crops to pay off the debt rather than feed their own people, and large amounts of money is creamed off by the kleptocracies originally backed by the west or the Soviet Union. But you are right about giving away food - that destroys the price of food in the country receiving it.
The only reason those children would 'never have accomplished anything' is that countries that can't afford to pay for food certainly can't afford to pay for education. Since the US government doesn't seem too interested in paying for educating Americans anymore, they're hardly likely to want to spend it on educating others.
Yeah, privatising inefficient government monopolies always makes them more efficient. Just ask anyone who uses Britain's railways. The private company Railtrack made Enron look intelligent.
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Nah, the Melton Mowbray earthquake was only 4.1. You could get that by dropping a really big pie...
They had a 5.7 in the East Midlands of the UK in the 1950's. A child in Derby was injured by a falling chimney. So the idea of Slashdot getting excited by a 5.2 in California - slow day is it?
Hmm, pondered the argument over the name, and frankly I don't care. Bardquote -
What 's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
Lightsabers and other non-real weaponry are fine.
Surely to be 100% secure means not connected to the internet, the hard drives erased, the hard drives melted down, and the whole lot buried in an unmarked landfill site at an undisclosed location.
This is sarcasm by the way.
And it's a shambles if they are releasing a DVD that doesn't include the best version of HHGTTG when it easily could, and would have made it the definitive collection.
It's since been pointed out elsewhere that I misunderstood the Amazon bit - apparently it doesn't contain a recording of the Radio Series, it contains a documentary about the recording of the radio series.
It not being on there is a shambles, the Beeb should be ashamed of themselves.
I haven't bought the DVD, as I've got all that stuff already (that is if the VHS and audio tapes haven't disintegrated)
But if you're going to buy the DVD, save your download time, as the radio series is on there.
If he'd just written the program, he shouldn't be in jail. If he'd written the program and put it on a website detailing that this would be a dangerous virus and why, and someone else then released it, well he could claim that his actions should be protected under free speech. But he wrote the virus and set it on others, knowing it would do damage. And for that, he deserves to be locked up.
That probably explains how the BBC manages to keep its audience figures up then. Flip to avoid adverts, then stay...
Growing up just means your toys get more expensive.
University security are spending all their time driving around in their little vans rather than do their blasted jobs. Oh, and they refused to send out an email warning people to keep an eye out for the little scumbag who's stealing the bikes. So because of that (and the fact that people plainly can't be bothered to report seeing this thief in action) there isn't a single safe place on campus to lock a bike.
Of course, what I'd like to see now is a decoy bike that when stolen, triggers an explosive charge that sends a heavy spike hurtling up the saddle column.
Can I expect to see pickets of authors next time I go to a library?
No, you're just reacting to the media-explained chinese whisper. The real question is whether singularities exist or not. The gravastar theory is merely arguing that the gravitational collapse would be halted before this infinitely extreme point is reached.
What, like being sneezed out by the Great Green Arkleseizure?
Seriously, just because a theory is shown to be incomplete, doesn't mean you can throw all physics away. We may not be able to describe gravity in the most fundamental terms, but that doesn't mean we should believe that apples are thrown down from the trees by invisible elves.
Possibly pure pedantry, but the term is branes, not membranes. Membranes are the 2-dimensional subset of branes, which are high-dimensional objects. More specifically, a membrane could also be called a two-brane, a string is a one-brane, and a point is a zero-brane.
Unless you can prove this, you'll just look like a conspiracy nut.
And my analogy isn't flawed, it is your understanding of it. CO2 changes definitely haven't been the sole cause of all the previous fluctuations, but that doesn't mean that therefore they cannot be a major contributor to the current temperature increase, or indeed any increase ever.
Your comment on vegetation is also puzzling - vegetation tends to respond to climate change, rather than start climate change in the first place. As most vegetation changes currently occuring are due to either mans activities or local climate change, I fail to see how vegetation change lets mankind off the hook.
Finally, just because things have happened before, it doesn't mean you should be happy to have them happen while you're around. Hey, we've had major recessions before, why should the economists try to avoid one, just because millions of people worldwide will lose their jobs?
In theory, CO2 definitely can affect the environment, and anyone who denies that is a crackpot. Whether it is currently causing the environment to change is, sadly, not completely clear because after all, the climate is very complicated.
To some extent, that's an outdated Malthusian theory. Population doesn't inevitably expand, and you don't have to be particularly wealthy to have near zero growth (look at the population growth rate in Russia). Education is the key thing, not forced vasectomies. Educated people have less children, and educating women is the most effective way of cutting the birth rate. They are also quite capable of being self-reliant, the problem is they often don't get the chance. As for money, most of the money the third world makes goes straight to us in debt payment. They are growing cash crops to pay off the debt rather than feed their own people, and large amounts of money is creamed off by the kleptocracies originally backed by the west or the Soviet Union. But you are right about giving away food - that destroys the price of food in the country receiving it.
The only reason those children would 'never have accomplished anything' is that countries that can't afford to pay for food certainly can't afford to pay for education. Since the US government doesn't seem too interested in paying for educating Americans anymore, they're hardly likely to want to spend it on educating others.
Yeah, privatising inefficient government monopolies always makes them more efficient. Just ask anyone who uses Britain's railways. The private company Railtrack made Enron look intelligent.