Well, I don;'t think that the indirect effects are being much included at all. For example, the United Nations' Green Revolution was responsible for keeping perhaps a billion people from dying of starvation. They and their descendants now are causing a fair fraction of that "damage".
Are the US and other First World nations wholly responsible for correcting this damage as well as their direct effects, or in this case would it be appropriate to expect those whose lives were saved to contribute a portion of t\heir own upkeep, so to speak?
Strange that you use this as a rationale for handicapped parking places, which by definition are not equal-opportunity; they totally prohibit use by the non-handicapped.
A shopping center near me does not get my business because they made all their few tree-shaded parking spots handicapped spots (though these are not nearer the stores). Why? I asked, and was told it was so their cars wouldn't get hot inside. Well, we can't have handicapped people's cars get hot just like everyone else's cars do, right? Even if it means
the spots stay empty.
The fact that handicapped people need food does not mean they don't need permission to rummage around in anyone's refrigerator and take what they want.
Once an event horizon forms, it doesn't matter what mass/energy formed a black hole; an all-energy black hole is called a kugelblitz.
No matter how much you accelerate it, though, a particle remains the same mass in its own frame. It just appears to have a higher energy to the initial frame. It's kind of like the question of an object being so fast relativity shortens it to a black hole density.
My company just banned Chrome anyway, because in the Nov. 7 version it will be reporting that there are errors with the 85% of HTTPS sites that don't use SHA-256 certificates.
And of course, the more efficient the Dyson sphere, the less heat it radiates. At what temperature point would the law of diminishing returns have alien engineers say, "Ah, just radiate the rest of the energy to space, too much trouble to use it for anything more"?
Where's the link between Norway rats and the plague at all? Domesticated rat pictures published along with stories about the disease? Circumstantial evidence is also quite weak when totally absent. It might be considered "circumstantial" that Norway rats appeared along with the disappearance of the known disease-transmitting ones, in the same niche, but it is fairly well established.
Interesting arguments. And not all hollow, though I would have used typhus as an example. Just because an animal can be infected by a disease doesn't always mean it is a credible source for transmission to humans. Or that they serve as a reservoir for other animals to catch it. Perhaps Norway rats "can" carry hantaviruses, but the CDC page is quite specific about the rodents that pose a threat to humans carrying it; deer mice one strain, white footed mice another, a third wild "rice rats" and "cotton rats". Toxoplasmosis pretty much isn't spread by anything except felines, though, or eating an infected animal raw.
The emphasis seems to be using the vague association of whole groups of economically or otherwise pestiferous animals with specific diseases as an excuse to campaign against noninvolved species, rather than as an honest evaluation of the amount of risk that might be mitigated by removing the animals involved. Raccoon roundworm poses a threat of causing human brain damage, but the simple fact is it mostly doesn't happen, while rodents that catch it can be debilitated for easy catching by the raccoons, and presumably often are. The threat of rat lungworm infection is also very scary as a rationale for controlling giant African snails in Florida, while the cases seem to amount to one man in Australia who swallowed live slugs on a bet; few people go around licking up African snail slime trails. Even relatively tiny numbers of sparsely scattered wolves are attacked as a threat by people using the scary possibilities of carrying the common dog tapeworm, while it is present in the much more dense dog and sheep populations, clearly an excuse for people who don't like wolves, period. Even the article linked to uses a domesticated version of a Norway rat as an illustration, though it isn't actually blaming the disease on "rats". It implies a shared blame, at least the possibility, with little or nothing to go on.
Well, it's rather a simple chain to follow. Black rats were associated with the plague. Brown rats replaced them, plague stopped. Still, the common wisdom still seems to remain "rats" were responsible for spreading the disease, sanitation measures, that apparently arrived after the disease was already gone, getting the credit. Even "transportation improvements", apparently, although those would tend to spread it more.
Doesn't it kind of muddle things that people dislike rats so much they won't admit bubonic plague disappeared along with brown (Norway) rats replacing the black rats that transmitted the disease?
Also, constellations aren't groups of stars. They simply appear to be because they are in the same direction to an observer on Earth. Some of the stars in most constellations are orders of magnitude more distant than the others.
"The seventh symbol is the point of origin" - but this point would also require multiple coordinates, or would be unnecessary because it is implicit in the gate you are dialing from. Hello? As if you had to dial an extra single numeral at the end of a phone number to specify the unique telephone you were calling from.
Don't get me started on everyone on every planet speaking English, without as much excuse as the Star Trek universal translator.
I assume it will have a lesser effect with so many fewer wolves around this time, unless some are added. So the last boom/bust would have benefited more, this one likely worse.
There seems no record of wolves tolerant enough of each other for them to catch up at this point (1000 moose last winter, IIRC. With about a one-third increase a year on Isle Royale, recently.
That could lower the population, if there was much money available per moose for the moving expenses. But it probably wouldn't change the ticks or deer parasites or summer heat stress killing off the moose. They would probably be transplanted to Michigan's UP where the moose population is also languishing, if not suffering the same losses as in MN.
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"sorry, hoarding food is now a firing squad offense"
Well, I don;'t think that the indirect effects are being much included at all. For example, the United Nations' Green Revolution was responsible for keeping perhaps a billion people from dying of starvation. They and their descendants now are causing a fair fraction of that "damage". Are the US and other First World nations wholly responsible for correcting this damage as well as their direct effects, or in this case would it be appropriate to expect those whose lives were saved to contribute a portion of t\heir own upkeep, so to speak?
And colonies of every variety of social spider unaggressive to their conspecifics are parasitized by a similar but non-altruisic kind.
Strange that you use this as a rationale for handicapped parking places, which by definition are not equal-opportunity; they totally prohibit use by the non-handicapped. A shopping center near me does not get my business because they made all their few tree-shaded parking spots handicapped spots (though these are not nearer the stores). Why? I asked, and was told it was so their cars wouldn't get hot inside. Well, we can't have handicapped people's cars get hot just like everyone else's cars do, right? Even if it means the spots stay empty.
The fact that handicapped people need food does not mean they don't need permission to rummage around in anyone's refrigerator and take what they want.
Careful, I read of someone in Californica who was convicted of being a false Feng Shui consultant.
Once an event horizon forms, it doesn't matter what mass/energy formed a black hole; an all-energy black hole is called a kugelblitz. No matter how much you accelerate it, though, a particle remains the same mass in its own frame. It just appears to have a higher energy to the initial frame. It's kind of like the question of an object being so fast relativity shortens it to a black hole density.
They breed really, really quickly.
We exploded them like they were tic-tacs? How do you explode a tic-tac? Calling Bad Analogy Police...
Have you found a way to get decent VM speed when allowing Intel C-state Management or Turbo Boost? I always end up getting about 25% faster without.
You've just invented a squirrel's tail.
My company just banned Chrome anyway, because in the Nov. 7 version it will be reporting that there are errors with the 85% of HTTPS sites that don't use SHA-256 certificates.
I'll admit I was surprised by this proposal for the Zergling Class ships...
And of course, the more efficient the Dyson sphere, the less heat it radiates. At what temperature point would the law of diminishing returns have alien engineers say, "Ah, just radiate the rest of the energy to space, too much trouble to use it for anything more"?
Where's the link between Norway rats and the plague at all? Domesticated rat pictures published along with stories about the disease? Circumstantial evidence is also quite weak when totally absent. It might be considered "circumstantial" that Norway rats appeared along with the disappearance of the known disease-transmitting ones, in the same niche, but it is fairly well established.
Interesting arguments. And not all hollow, though I would have used typhus as an example. Just because an animal can be infected by a disease doesn't always mean it is a credible source for transmission to humans. Or that they serve as a reservoir for other animals to catch it. Perhaps Norway rats "can" carry hantaviruses, but the CDC page is quite specific about the rodents that pose a threat to humans carrying it; deer mice one strain, white footed mice another, a third wild "rice rats" and "cotton rats". Toxoplasmosis pretty much isn't spread by anything except felines, though, or eating an infected animal raw. The emphasis seems to be using the vague association of whole groups of economically or otherwise pestiferous animals with specific diseases as an excuse to campaign against noninvolved species, rather than as an honest evaluation of the amount of risk that might be mitigated by removing the animals involved. Raccoon roundworm poses a threat of causing human brain damage, but the simple fact is it mostly doesn't happen, while rodents that catch it can be debilitated for easy catching by the raccoons, and presumably often are. The threat of rat lungworm infection is also very scary as a rationale for controlling giant African snails in Florida, while the cases seem to amount to one man in Australia who swallowed live slugs on a bet; few people go around licking up African snail slime trails. Even relatively tiny numbers of sparsely scattered wolves are attacked as a threat by people using the scary possibilities of carrying the common dog tapeworm, while it is present in the much more dense dog and sheep populations, clearly an excuse for people who don't like wolves, period. Even the article linked to uses a domesticated version of a Norway rat as an illustration, though it isn't actually blaming the disease on "rats". It implies a shared blame, at least the possibility, with little or nothing to go on.
Well, it's rather a simple chain to follow. Black rats were associated with the plague. Brown rats replaced them, plague stopped. Still, the common wisdom still seems to remain "rats" were responsible for spreading the disease, sanitation measures, that apparently arrived after the disease was already gone, getting the credit. Even "transportation improvements", apparently, although those would tend to spread it more.
Doesn't it kind of muddle things that people dislike rats so much they won't admit bubonic plague disappeared along with brown (Norway) rats replacing the black rats that transmitted the disease?
Yes, the meek inherit a 3-by-8 foot plot of the earth.
Also, constellations aren't groups of stars. They simply appear to be because they are in the same direction to an observer on Earth. Some of the stars in most constellations are orders of magnitude more distant than the others.
"The seventh symbol is the point of origin" - but this point would also require multiple coordinates, or would be unnecessary because it is implicit in the gate you are dialing from. Hello? As if you had to dial an extra single numeral at the end of a phone number to specify the unique telephone you were calling from.
Don't get me started on everyone on every planet speaking English, without as much excuse as the Star Trek universal translator.
Pioneer One hasn't put out a lot of episodes lately.
It will be interesting to see if the moose benefit from this winter killing ticks.
Or other effects, moose seem to like cold.
Neat, yes, I wasn't aware of that effect.
I assume it will have a lesser effect with so many fewer wolves around this time, unless some are added. So the last boom/bust would have benefited more, this one likely worse.
There seems no record of wolves tolerant enough of each other for them to catch up at this point (1000 moose last winter, IIRC. With about a one-third increase a year on Isle Royale, recently.
That could lower the population, if there was much money available per moose for the moving expenses. But it probably wouldn't change the ticks or deer parasites or summer heat stress killing off the moose. They would probably be transplanted to Michigan's UP where the moose population is also languishing, if not suffering the same losses as in MN.