I like KPDF as well and that's my default viewer, but look at what is coming: Okular promises to be, if not an Acroread killer, at least a very serious contender. Note that this is KDE4 stuff (ergo Qt4, ergo it may easily be on Windows machines by year's end!).
[...] industry generates less CO2 per acre than biota do. Why doesn't anyone take into account what we destroyed when counting what we created?
Here's one for you: biota do not drill to several kilometers underground and pump carbon out. Industry does. Biota get CO2 from air, and, since atoms are conserved, they give back the same carbon they got. The balance is unchanged, and the generation of CO2 from biota is a net zero. That's why no one takes it into account.
Yes, there's an entire industry behind it, worth about eight times what a science field with that count of people in it is typically worth.
Sure, because Exxon is penniless, right? Stop with this bullshit already. If climatology had these margins (and being "the Video" by Channel 4 your source I doubt they have), money would be their last concern.
People in universities are not greedy, for the simple reason that if they actually were they would go to the industry and make a career there. It's perfectly normal. People who work in academia simply value freedom to research what they are interested in more than higher pay.
It's not from the BBC, it's from Channel 4. The Great Global Warming Swindle, as one could understand from its title, is not exactly a balanced documentary, and has received threats of legal action by at least one of the people appearing in the film, Carl Wunsch, who claimed to have been grossly misquoted.
For the sake of open-mindedness, I tried watching this piece of corporate propaganda. I concluded this is crap when I heard the argument that "CO2 in atmosphere is not important because it is only 0.054% of the atmosphere" (at 13 minutes and 20 seconds into the movie). No, they did not say that: they knew it was a lie. So they just "implied" it, selectively and carefully quoting a scientist who is simply stating the obvious ("there is little CO2 in the atmosphere") but without the as obvious consequences ("Since it's so little humans can have a sensible effect in terms of percentage"). They also conveniently mentioned that 95% of greenhouse gases is water vapour, and as conveniently forgot to mention that that is a factor humans cannot influence, because of the enormous buffer represented by the oceans.
Finally, the documentary's author, Martin Durkin, a man with no scientific credentials by the way, handled criticism with class, calling one researcher who pointed out that his CO2/solar radiation correlation data were known to be flawed "a big daft cock" (that was actually all his answer), and telling to "go to fuck [him]self" to another one who urged him to be civilised.
He's not just any prince. He's Vittorio Emanuele, prince of Naples (a title he holds illegally, actually, since nobility titles are no longer valid in Italy), a thoroughly idiotic fellow, a murderer (who got away with that and bragged about having "screwed the judges"), an anti-semite who said that the racial laws passed by his grandfather "were not that terrible", an arms dealer who was friend with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, dictator of Persia.
Hookers and blackjack are peanuts in his line of business, but of course you can jail'em only when you can nail'em, a bit like Al Capone.
However, if we're just talking about off-the-shelf style candy, I'll take the European stuff any day.
Unfortunately, due to the pressure of Nordic countries (disclaimer: I live in one), which care less for good-quality food (seriously: they actually use margarine instead of butter. Margarine!) than southern ones, and also due to the fact that Switzerland is politically a long way outside EU and has zero leverage in Brussels, this measure has been passed long ago in the EU parliament.
You can still find reasonably good chocolate (tip: check it has labels in German, French and Italian, in that order: it's probably Swiss, where they would never allow vegetable oil out of national pride), but you have to get into the habit of reading the ingredient list to check for vegetable oil. A cheap price tag is also a cue.
Buy stuff made in Taiwan. There's plenty of it, it's cheap, usually good, and it'll piss off the Chinese.
Except that, for very interesting and intricate historical reasons, both the ROC and the PRC mark their products as "made in China", as both governments (at least formally) consider themselves the government of both mainland and Taiwan. I would not be surprised if the ROC had a law to ensure that producers use "Made in China" instead of "Made in Taiwan", this used to be a hot political issue.
[...] Stalin, so that pushes you into the 60s. Then you get Pol Pot. Idi Amin. The ayatollah. Sadaam. Milosevic.
For some curious reason, Americans seem to mention only the dictators who were inconvenient to their government. Just for sake of completeness, what about Trujillo, Suharto, Pinochet, Videla, the various South Vietnamese rulers, the military juntas of El Salvador and Guatemala, the South African apartheid regime, Batista, the Brazilian dictatorships, Musharraf, the Shah of Persia, Park, various dictators in Thailand, the house of Saud, Papadopoulos, and countless others in Latin America and Africa that I cannot possibly recall them all?
Ah, but you ignore the derivative. [...] When will more Americans die from terrorism in any given year than die on America's highways? I believe we will see that occur in our lifetime.
Who cares about the derivative, the point is how many people die. You are extrapolating trends, which is something that cannot be done as carelessly as you are doing now.
For instance, 3000 American civilians were killed by terrorism in 2001. No one in 2002. Does it mean that by now terrorism kills -15,000 Americans every year (i.e. resuscitates 15,000 because of the negative sign)?
Most programming languages use keywords taken from English. Good programmers will not use random variable names, but descriptive ones (ie, in English). Good programmers also write documentation. Anyone also has to write some text or emails once in a while.
As far as my experience goes, I have been using Dvorak at home and at work for the past four years. I started a new job as a C++ programmer in a small company six months ago. Since in the beginning I worked only 2 days a week (had to finish the PhD thesis), my machine was used by others during the other days, so I thought I would keep that QWERTY. However, even if I can still type QWERTY, this does not mean it was not painful as hell. After a few hours of work, I would get stiff and aching wrists. I switched to a Dvorak-like layout and the pains went away immediately.
Yeah, anecdotal evidence, but that's as far as I care really.
As for Dvorak being optimised for English, it surely is, but English contains a bunch of Latin words taken from French. Optimising for English means obtaining a solution that is likely better than QWERTY for most European languages too. All languages that regularly alternate vowels and consonants will notice an improvement over QWERTY because Dvorak places all vowels on one side, even if it is not the optimal layout for that language. I can at least confirm this for Norwegian and Italian. Welsh and Polish may be exceptions.
You are however exposed to accidents with each one of them, so you have to multiply back by 200,000,000. I would have written it better if it were not for sig length limits.
Possibly "Traffic is 80 times more dangerous than al-Quaeda" would fit better.
However, unless the Kremlin pursues Chinese-style/Turkish-style blocking of the Internet-Protocol addresses of web sites like 'The Economist', even the Kremlin cannot control the online media.
Now, if a sizeable chunk of the Russian electorate had Internet connectivity and could read English, that would be a problem. Why is everybody assuming every Russian can read English? How many of us can read Russian?
The main point being, in a "nominal" democracy you need to control only 50%+1 of the electorate. Information channels that are available to only a tiny fraction of the population are irrelevant to censorship. In Italy (not as badly censored as Russia... yet) you can find bunches of books denouncing Berlusconi's mafia acquaintances, corruption, and the suspicious sources of his wealth in his own bookstores: that's because few Italians read books (or newspapers for that sake). Try say anything even alluding in that direction on television, and you get fired so fast your ass leaves skid marks through the parking lot. It has not even gotten much better now that Berlusconi is in opposition because he still retains his private power.
About KDE, it seems from a quick skimming of the comments that no one has yet remarked that Qt4 is GPL'd for Windows as well (Qt3 was not). As KDE 4 comes around and applications are ported to Qt4, it will be fairly easy to recompile K3b, Amarok, digiKam, Krita, Kile and of course KOffice to Windows. Sometime later this year there may be a flurry of high-quality free software made available for Windows, it will be interesting to see how it develops.
it's the difference between the partial pressure of the gas in what you breathe and the partial tension of the same gas in your tissues that determines absorption rate.
Nitrogen does nothing, but it is in the way. Oxygen has to diffuse through nitrogen to get to a place where it is consumed, and diffusion is a relatively slow process (yes, I am a chemical engineer, and I did run Stefan-Maxwell simulations).
Say you have a total pressure of 20 kPa, 100% oxygen. If oxygen is consumed at point X by a reaction (I will drop the issue of products diffusing out), all other oxygen around will rush to the spot unhindered (pressure is fast: actually the limit would be the speed of sound). If you have dry air atmosphere, you have 20 kPa oxygen and 80 kPa nitrogen. If oxygen is consumed at point X, nitrogen will accumulate there since air as a whole, not oxygen only, are dragged to point X, and only oxygen is disappearing.
So, yes, what counts for reaction rate is the partial pressure of oxygen, but in many cases (and fires are one of these) diffusion limits how fast oxygen can get to the reaction, so you cannot just pretend you do not have an inert gas in the way.
above that range the oxygen begins to damage the tissues, in an effect known as oxygen toxicity.
In fact it is even worse than that, at 100 kPa oxygen (~one atmosphere of pure oxygen) flesh burns "vigorously", as my buddy's professor in combustion used to say. That's why you are not allowed any sort of lighter or match in a hyperbaric chamber, as people inside would burn as gasoline.
Would I be right to worry that when I upgrade to the next Ubuntu release, or update within the release I'm running, that I might find several programs and libraries quietly dropping their MP3 support, leaving me with gigs of unplayable files?
You should not worry as this software-patent madness is only about the US, Japan, Australia and few other countries. Europe, India and South Africa (where Ubuntu is from) are still free.
And, anyway, you can simply write a script to convert all your mp3s into wav and then into ogg: it should not take more than 10 lines in bash, and if this were ever to be a problem such a script would be made available in 10 minutes on Ubuntu's forums.
The 'squiggly' is based on the letter L, which naturally is derived from the word 'librum'.
Almost correct, it is derived from the Latin libra, which trivially means "pound" (or also "scales"). It is also the same stem for the Lira (Italian and Turkish), which explains why the complete name of the Pound Sterling in Italian is Lira Sterlina, whereas the word for pound as a measure of weight is libbra (occurs mostly in old Hollywood movies, before they started translating to SI; most people have not the slightest idea which is heavier, a pound or an ounce).
[...] if somebody (Iran) decides to stop exporting for a few months, we'll all (Americans) be paying $5 a gallon for gas by June (worse in places with gas taxes high enough to provide a disincentive to SUVs)
Hi America, it's Europe here. Wanted just to mention that, while Americans have been whining about skyrocketing gas price, the effects have been noticeable but much lesser over here.
The reason is that in most European countries gas price used to be 80% tax and 20% actual product, and the overall price was about 6 dollars a gallon (one euro per litre; basically we paid a litre what you paid a gallon). That was the level for years, meaning that people, corporations and governments all accounted for this sort of gas price in decision making. When the gas price doubled, the price we pay increased only by 20%: not nice, but no tragedy either.
A large chunk of America has been built on the assumption of cheap oil. People commute over larger distances, cities are way more horizontal and less packed, there is much less public transport, the car park is much less efficient since people did not use to care about efficiency. This is especially critical because transport is almost half the energy consumption in a society: if the cost of something like that doubles, the least that can happen is a big bump in the economy.
The point is, be it Iran or Iraq or Saudi Arabia, cheap oil is no more anyway. The cheap fields are all used up, production is going down, but demand is going as usual exponentially up: that means only that oil price is bound to skyrocket even more. Maybe someone in the oil lobby will blame Ahmadinejad or the Iraqi insurrection for it, or Bin Laden or whatever other scarecrow: the truth is, there is simply less oil. Of course it will not finish over a few days, like some early doomsday prophecies that the oil lobbyists take out from their pocket to demonstrate that, well, it has never happened when the "environuts" predicted, so it will never do: in the worst case, the industry may well shift to Fischer-Tropsch and produce oil from coal. Only problem, price is way higher than what the current energy system in America (and most industrialized countries) can possibly sustain.
The bottom line is, governments all over the world (and especially America) should patch this giant hole quickly, and pass measures to reduce consumption ASAP and start the transition to other sources. Having the oil lobby in the White House, though, is hardly helping. The oil lobby wants everybody to keep using oil, a ware that everybody needs (it takes decades to move to a different energy source), that will have increasingly high prices (and they know it), and on which they consequentially plan to make ever higher profits (anybody noticed that Exxon has made a few pennies more than usual after the war in Iraq?).
The Liberal Party of Norway is currently a small-sized party in opposition, together with the conservatives (check out what sort of ladies can be in politics in Norway: how many milliseconds would she last anywhere else?) and Christian democrats. The thing most closely resembling the Republicans is the Progress party, a hate-spewing propaganda machine for the lesser mentally developed (yes, there is statistics showing Progress voters are less schooled than average; and yes, they actually bought the WMD bull back in 2003).
Current government is headed by the Labour party, the Socialist Left party (more or less like Labour, only more environment-focused and anti-NATO, and generally more left-leaning) and the Centre party (farmers).
I would not agree on the opportunity of using a link to Dagbladet to explain this issue (ok most people do not read Norwegian anyway), as Dagbladet is a low-quality tabloid focusing on flashy headlines. This article from Aftenposten indicates that censorship is a mindretallforslag, i.e. a minority proposition. The majority of the Datakrimutvalget (Authority for computer crime) actually voted against this proposal.
The Gran Paradiso is the tallest peak of the Graian Alps at over 4,000 metres, and gives the name to Italy's oldest National Park (1856). And by the way, "Gran Paradiso" is a masculine name, so it does definitely not fit a woman.
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The implication is that 30 years ago there was a larger event.
IMHO it's more likely that 30 years ago they did not have satellites to measure these events, so they cannot say when the last one happened.
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I like KPDF as well and that's my default viewer, but look at what is coming: Okular promises to be, if not an Acroread killer, at least a very serious contender. Note that this is KDE4 stuff (ergo Qt4, ergo it may easily be on Windows machines by year's end!).
Here's one for you: biota do not drill to several kilometers underground and pump carbon out. Industry does. Biota get CO2 from air, and, since atoms are conserved, they give back the same carbon they got. The balance is unchanged, and the generation of CO2 from biota is a net zero. That's why no one takes it into account.
Sure, because Exxon is penniless, right? Stop with this bullshit already. If climatology had these margins (and being "the Video" by Channel 4 your source I doubt they have), money would be their last concern.
People in universities are not greedy, for the simple reason that if they actually were they would go to the industry and make a career there. It's perfectly normal. People who work in academia simply value freedom to research what they are interested in more than higher pay.
It's not from the BBC, it's from Channel 4. The Great Global Warming Swindle, as one could understand from its title, is not exactly a balanced documentary, and has received threats of legal action by at least one of the people appearing in the film, Carl Wunsch, who claimed to have been grossly misquoted.
For the sake of open-mindedness, I tried watching this piece of corporate propaganda. I concluded this is crap when I heard the argument that "CO2 in atmosphere is not important because it is only 0.054% of the atmosphere" (at 13 minutes and 20 seconds into the movie). No, they did not say that: they knew it was a lie. So they just "implied" it, selectively and carefully quoting a scientist who is simply stating the obvious ("there is little CO2 in the atmosphere") but without the as obvious consequences ("Since it's so little humans can have a sensible effect in terms of percentage"). They also conveniently mentioned that 95% of greenhouse gases is water vapour, and as conveniently forgot to mention that that is a factor humans cannot influence, because of the enormous buffer represented by the oceans.
Finally, the documentary's author, Martin Durkin, a man with no scientific credentials by the way, handled criticism with class, calling one researcher who pointed out that his CO2/solar radiation correlation data were known to be flawed "a big daft cock" (that was actually all his answer), and telling to "go to fuck [him]self" to another one who urged him to be civilised.
He's not just any prince. He's Vittorio Emanuele, prince of Naples (a title he holds illegally, actually, since nobility titles are no longer valid in Italy), a thoroughly idiotic fellow, a murderer (who got away with that and bragged about having "screwed the judges"), an anti-semite who said that the racial laws passed by his grandfather "were not that terrible", an arms dealer who was friend with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, dictator of Persia.
Hookers and blackjack are peanuts in his line of business, but of course you can jail'em only when you can nail'em, a bit like Al Capone.
Unfortunately, due to the pressure of Nordic countries (disclaimer: I live in one), which care less for good-quality food (seriously: they actually use margarine instead of butter. Margarine!) than southern ones, and also due to the fact that Switzerland is politically a long way outside EU and has zero leverage in Brussels, this measure has been passed long ago in the EU parliament.
You can still find reasonably good chocolate (tip: check it has labels in German, French and Italian, in that order: it's probably Swiss, where they would never allow vegetable oil out of national pride), but you have to get into the habit of reading the ingredient list to check for vegetable oil. A cheap price tag is also a cue.
Except that, for very interesting and intricate historical reasons, both the ROC and the PRC mark their products as "made in China", as both governments (at least formally) consider themselves the government of both mainland and Taiwan. I would not be surprised if the ROC had a law to ensure that producers use "Made in China" instead of "Made in Taiwan", this used to be a hot political issue.
For some curious reason, Americans seem to mention only the dictators who were inconvenient to their government. Just for sake of completeness, what about Trujillo, Suharto, Pinochet, Videla, the various South Vietnamese rulers, the military juntas of El Salvador and Guatemala, the South African apartheid regime, Batista, the Brazilian dictatorships, Musharraf, the Shah of Persia, Park, various dictators in Thailand, the house of Saud, Papadopoulos, and countless others in Latin America and Africa that I cannot possibly recall them all?
Who cares about the derivative, the point is how many people die. You are extrapolating trends, which is something that cannot be done as carelessly as you are doing now.
For instance, 3000 American civilians were killed by terrorism in 2001. No one in 2002. Does it mean that by now terrorism kills -15,000 Americans every year (i.e. resuscitates 15,000 because of the negative sign)?
Most programming languages use keywords taken from English. Good programmers will not use random variable names, but descriptive ones (ie, in English). Good programmers also write documentation. Anyone also has to write some text or emails once in a while.
As far as my experience goes, I have been using Dvorak at home and at work for the past four years. I started a new job as a C++ programmer in a small company six months ago. Since in the beginning I worked only 2 days a week (had to finish the PhD thesis), my machine was used by others during the other days, so I thought I would keep that QWERTY. However, even if I can still type QWERTY, this does not mean it was not painful as hell. After a few hours of work, I would get stiff and aching wrists. I switched to a Dvorak-like layout and the pains went away immediately.
Yeah, anecdotal evidence, but that's as far as I care really.
As for Dvorak being optimised for English, it surely is, but English contains a bunch of Latin words taken from French. Optimising for English means obtaining a solution that is likely better than QWERTY for most European languages too. All languages that regularly alternate vowels and consonants will notice an improvement over QWERTY because Dvorak places all vowels on one side, even if it is not the optimal layout for that language. I can at least confirm this for Norwegian and Italian. Welsh and Polish may be exceptions.
You are however exposed to accidents with each one of them, so you have to multiply back by 200,000,000. I would have written it better if it were not for sig length limits.
Possibly "Traffic is 80 times more dangerous than al-Quaeda" would fit better.
In Putin's Russia, check mates YOU!!
Now, if a sizeable chunk of the Russian electorate had Internet connectivity and could read English, that would be a problem. Why is everybody assuming every Russian can read English? How many of us can read Russian?
The main point being, in a "nominal" democracy you need to control only 50%+1 of the electorate. Information channels that are available to only a tiny fraction of the population are irrelevant to censorship. In Italy (not as badly censored as Russia... yet) you can find bunches of books denouncing Berlusconi's mafia acquaintances, corruption, and the suspicious sources of his wealth in his own bookstores: that's because few Italians read books (or newspapers for that sake). Try say anything even alluding in that direction on television, and you get fired so fast your ass leaves skid marks through the parking lot. It has not even gotten much better now that Berlusconi is in opposition because he still retains his private power.
About KDE, it seems from a quick skimming of the comments that no one has yet remarked that Qt4 is GPL'd for Windows as well (Qt3 was not). As KDE 4 comes around and applications are ported to Qt4, it will be fairly easy to recompile K3b, Amarok, digiKam, Krita, Kile and of course KOffice to Windows. Sometime later this year there may be a flurry of high-quality free software made available for Windows, it will be interesting to see how it develops.
Both you and the parent post are right, in a way.
Nitrogen does nothing, but it is in the way. Oxygen has to diffuse through nitrogen to get to a place where it is consumed, and diffusion is a relatively slow process (yes, I am a chemical engineer, and I did run Stefan-Maxwell simulations).
Say you have a total pressure of 20 kPa, 100% oxygen. If oxygen is consumed at point X by a reaction (I will drop the issue of products diffusing out), all other oxygen around will rush to the spot unhindered (pressure is fast: actually the limit would be the speed of sound). If you have dry air atmosphere, you have 20 kPa oxygen and 80 kPa nitrogen. If oxygen is consumed at point X, nitrogen will accumulate there since air as a whole, not oxygen only, are dragged to point X, and only oxygen is disappearing.
So, yes, what counts for reaction rate is the partial pressure of oxygen, but in many cases (and fires are one of these) diffusion limits how fast oxygen can get to the reaction, so you cannot just pretend you do not have an inert gas in the way.
In fact it is even worse than that, at 100 kPa oxygen (~one atmosphere of pure oxygen) flesh burns "vigorously", as my buddy's professor in combustion used to say. That's why you are not allowed any sort of lighter or match in a hyperbaric chamber, as people inside would burn as gasoline.
You should not worry as this software-patent madness is only about the US, Japan, Australia and few other countries. Europe, India and South Africa (where Ubuntu is from) are still free.
And, anyway, you can simply write a script to convert all your mp3s into wav and then into ogg: it should not take more than 10 lines in bash, and if this were ever to be a problem such a script would be made available in 10 minutes on Ubuntu's forums.
Almost correct, it is derived from the Latin libra, which trivially means "pound" (or also "scales"). It is also the same stem for the Lira (Italian and Turkish), which explains why the complete name of the Pound Sterling in Italian is Lira Sterlina, whereas the word for pound as a measure of weight is libbra (occurs mostly in old Hollywood movies, before they started translating to SI; most people have not the slightest idea which is heavier, a pound or an ounce).
Hi America, it's Europe here. Wanted just to mention that, while Americans have been whining about skyrocketing gas price, the effects have been noticeable but much lesser over here.
The reason is that in most European countries gas price used to be 80% tax and 20% actual product, and the overall price was about 6 dollars a gallon (one euro per litre; basically we paid a litre what you paid a gallon). That was the level for years, meaning that people, corporations and governments all accounted for this sort of gas price in decision making. When the gas price doubled, the price we pay increased only by 20%: not nice, but no tragedy either.
A large chunk of America has been built on the assumption of cheap oil. People commute over larger distances, cities are way more horizontal and less packed, there is much less public transport, the car park is much less efficient since people did not use to care about efficiency. This is especially critical because transport is almost half the energy consumption in a society: if the cost of something like that doubles, the least that can happen is a big bump in the economy.
The point is, be it Iran or Iraq or Saudi Arabia, cheap oil is no more anyway. The cheap fields are all used up, production is going down, but demand is going as usual exponentially up: that means only that oil price is bound to skyrocket even more. Maybe someone in the oil lobby will blame Ahmadinejad or the Iraqi insurrection for it, or Bin Laden or whatever other scarecrow: the truth is, there is simply less oil. Of course it will not finish over a few days, like some early doomsday prophecies that the oil lobbyists take out from their pocket to demonstrate that, well, it has never happened when the "environuts" predicted, so it will never do: in the worst case, the industry may well shift to Fischer-Tropsch and produce oil from coal. Only problem, price is way higher than what the current energy system in America (and most industrialized countries) can possibly sustain.
The bottom line is, governments all over the world (and especially America) should patch this giant hole quickly, and pass measures to reduce consumption ASAP and start the transition to other sources. Having the oil lobby in the White House, though, is hardly helping. The oil lobby wants everybody to keep using oil, a ware that everybody needs (it takes decades to move to a different energy source), that will have increasingly high prices (and they know it), and on which they consequentially plan to make ever higher profits (anybody noticed that Exxon has made a few pennies more than usual after the war in Iraq?).
The Liberal Party of Norway is currently a small-sized party in opposition, together with the conservatives (check out what sort of ladies can be in politics in Norway: how many milliseconds would she last anywhere else?) and Christian democrats. The thing most closely resembling the Republicans is the Progress party, a hate-spewing propaganda machine for the lesser mentally developed (yes, there is statistics showing Progress voters are less schooled than average; and yes, they actually bought the WMD bull back in 2003).
Current government is headed by the Labour party, the Socialist Left party (more or less like Labour, only more environment-focused and anti-NATO, and generally more left-leaning) and the Centre party (farmers).
I would not agree on the opportunity of using a link to Dagbladet to explain this issue (ok most people do not read Norwegian anyway), as Dagbladet is a low-quality tabloid focusing on flashy headlines. This article from Aftenposten indicates that censorship is a mindretallforslag, i.e. a minority proposition. The majority of the Datakrimutvalget (Authority for computer crime) actually voted against this proposal.
That's where your habits kick in. For me, "37 degrees" sounds quite hot, even though in Italy the "oomphy" hot temperature is usually 40.
The Gran Paradiso is the tallest peak of the Graian Alps at over 4,000 metres, and gives the name to Italy's oldest National Park (1856). And by the way, "Gran Paradiso" is a masculine name, so it does definitely not fit a woman.
IMHO it's more likely that 30 years ago they did not have satellites to measure these events, so they cannot say when the last one happened.
Your source for this claim being...?
All I asked for was sharks with frikin' laser beams attached to their heads! Deers? Oh, that's a start.
A chill went through my spine as I read this statement. Build a time machine and go back to the Spanish Inquisition, that's where you belong.