believe that 500 million billion tonnes of ice sheet
1 km^3 ~ 1 billion tonnes ice.
The Larsen Ice Shelf: 0,2 km * 3250 km^2 = 650 km^3.
This makes the total mass of the shelf around 0.9 * 650 billion tonnes = 585 billion tonnes, assuming that the mass of the ice is roughly 0.9 that of water.
Who is actually responsible for making sure that someone who abuses the GPL is punished?? Is it the original creator? How complicated would it be to prosecute a violation? What about salaries
for lawyers if that is needed??
Most would agree that the US has been a model citizen as a nuclear superpower. At least we have tremendous safeguards surrounding the use of such devices
Are you joking?? AFAIR US is the only country to ever use nuclear weapons against another country during war. (The justice of this is of course negotiable, and I somewhat agree with you that it probably was the best solution.)
Furthermore the US is most probably the country with the largest amount of nuclear tests in the world... Also in fairly recent times! That doesn't really count as a "model citizen" in my book.
Slashdot Mirror
[..] but I never got around to disconnecting from Earthlink or from AOL, which I've been on for years [...]
Jon Katz is an AOL-user??! Wow! That somehow seems so evident that I suddenly can't believe I didn't figure it out myself long ago...
a 200m thick ice floe covering 3,250 sq km
believe that 500 million billion tonnes of ice sheet
1 km^3 ~ 1 billion tonnes ice.
The Larsen Ice Shelf: 0,2 km * 3250 km^2 = 650 km^3.
This makes the total mass of the shelf around 0.9 * 650 billion tonnes = 585 billion tonnes, assuming that the mass of the ice is roughly 0.9 that of water.
Who is actually responsible for making sure that someone who abuses the GPL is punished?? Is it the original creator? How complicated would it be to prosecute a violation? What about salaries for lawyers if that is needed??
Henrik
... Sure hope that the moderators spent that few extra minutes to try and locate her answer and mod it up.
Most would agree that the US has been a model citizen as a nuclear superpower. At least we have tremendous safeguards surrounding the use of such devices
... From wet, wet Copenhagen.
Are you joking?? AFAIR US is the only country to ever use nuclear weapons against another country during war. (The justice of this is of course negotiable, and I somewhat agree with you that it probably was the best solution.)
Furthermore the US is most probably the country with the largest amount of nuclear tests in the world... Also in fairly recent times! That doesn't really count as a "model citizen" in my book.
- Henrik