My personal theory is that the pleistocene has been so cold because of the historically (4 billion years) high oxygen levels and the significant amount of historical carbon that has been sequestered underground.
Humans are changing that, we're sucking all the sequestered carbon out and putting it into the atmosphere where it hasn't been since the dinosaurs. Before all the science deniers reply, this is scary because humanity was born in the ice ages of the Pleistocene we've never experienced a planet as warm as the dinosaurs where there weren't any ice caps and it was 100 degrees in the northern reaches of Canada (yes I know the continents were in different places so Canada was at a lower latitude).
So, you're arguing that the Pleistocene was cold because of all the carbon sequestered underground 62+ million years before the Pleistocene started?
Alright, why was the Eocene warmer than now? For that matter, why was the Eocene warmer than the Paleocene, which preceded it, and the Oligocene which followed it?
For that matter, the Eocene's peak temperature was higher than either the Jurrasic or Cretaceous.
And why was the Oligocene colder than the Miocene, which followed it?
In other words, if that wheel is too small and you spin it too fast (to get to that 1g you want), you'd be nauseated to the extreme.
What makes you think we want 1g? Perhaps Mars gravity would be sufficient. Or even Lunar gravity. Till we make the experiments, we won't know.
As to minimum size, if we allow for 5% difference in speed between head and feet, we'd need a 40m radius wheel. Or just a 40m long boom with a pod at one end, plus a short boom with a counterweight at the other end (or a really long boom with a much lighter counterweight at the end - depends on what works out to be smallest total mass).
Congress passed the mandate and Obama immediately said "nope, I'm going to ignore the law and declare my own law instead." I don't think even Roosevelt had done that.
Right after Pearl Harbor, Congress passed declarations of war against Germany and Japan (in response to their declarations of war against us). At that point Roosevelt told Congress that they should go into Recess until the War was over.
Luckily for all of us, they told him to pound sand.
Social security is not funded by deficit spending. Indeed, social security has run a surplus over the lifetime of the program and is doing so now.
Social Security is Pay-as-you-go. Which, among other things, means that as the Boomers retire, the ratio of payees to payers is going to go up significantly.
The Social Security "surplus" consists of zero-interest intra-governmental T-Bills, which will be redeemed out of current tax revenues as needed. Which means that every dollar in the SSA "surplus" will produce a dollar of deficit spending when the time comes to "redeem" it.
For all practical purposes, the SSA "surplus" doesn't exist, and never has. Simple test: if it doesn't exist, the Feds pay for SSA by borrowing more money, but if it does, they pay for SSA by...borrowing more money. If the effect of having a thing is exactly the same as the effect of not having it, it doesn't exist.
How you can equate medical/industrial isotope capsules with nuclear power generation is another question. (Hint: you really can't, but it's so difficult to pass an opportunity for trolling, right?)
But the people who want to frighten the general public away from nuclear power just need to get "unsafe" and "nuclear" together in the same headline.
Your average layman isn't going to make the distinction between nuclear power plants and radioisotopes used in medicine when he sees that "unsafe" and "nuclear" together...
You know, I've read the Constitution and all Amendments several times, and I still can't find the clause that actually gives rights of any kind to businesses.
From what I can tell, the Constitution only mentions 3 entities: Federal government, State government, and the People. Of course, corporations did exist back then (the collusion between the East India Tea Company and the British crown was a large part of the colonists rationale for revolting, after all), so it's not like it was an oversight.
So... what's up with all this talk about business rights? Businesses don't have rights.
Note further that the word "rights" applies to only one of the three entities you mention - the people.
Governments, both State and Federal have "powers", but they don't have "rights".
such a system in Washington DC would require 1100 sq ft of roof space, and cost $68,000 before incentives, or $24,000 after incentives.
If everyone is doing it (as the article proposes), the incentives will evaporate. Tax incentives and government rebates/matching funds/whatever only work if the number of people taking advantage of them is small compared to the total population.
It's nice when you get your neighbors to pay 2/3 the cost of your solar array, not so nice when you have to pay 2/3 the cost of their solar arrays.
Other than that, I question the ability of your system to charge your car reliably if you take your car to work on a regular basis. And if you don't, why do you have it anyway?
Might want to read the Militia Act sometime. It might surprise you to find out that YOU are a member of the militia. As am I. And most likely every other American citizen on/.
Every turncoat in every situation is considered a traitor.
US Constitution, Article 3, Section 3. Learn it, love it, live it.
Osama can't be a traitor because he's not an American. An enemy? Sure. A criminal? Yep. A traitor? No. No more than we could have charged Hitler with treason against the USA....
Well, to do that, you're going to need to draft up a Constitutional Amendment that voids the First Amendment, then get 2/3 of state legislatures to ratify it.
3/4 of the State legislatures. It takes 2/3 of the States to call a Constitutional Convention to propose new Amendments, but 3/4 to get them approved.
that they are destroying the economy by "growing their own vegetables in a rooftop garden and selling them to other wealthy people"
Shades of Wickard v. Filburn! People are getting upset that someone is growing their own food!
Hope those protesters don't find out about farmers...they'd prolly go totally apeshit to know that there are people who make a living growing their own food....
socialism provides free medical care to sick people,
Interesting that you think of socialized healthcare as "free". Trust me, it's being paid for by everyone (including the one getting the "free" healthcare) - but the costs are hidden in your taxes.
somehow I don't think that a group of people looking for government subsidies for their healthcare represent the best targets for identity fraud.
Two things to remember:
1) You have to have a certain MINIMUM income to qualify for the subsidies - if you're even $1 per year below that minimum, you get NO subsidies.
2) Healthcare.gov is connected to the IRS computers, which have data on EVERYONE. That's required to compute the subsidies you're eligible for (or not).
NASA? Pretty much everything they do consists of issuing a design spec and taking bids. Even Apollo and Saturn were actually designed by private companies.
I mean they closed down parks, did everything they could to make people feel the cuts as much as they could, all the while making no meaningful cut to anything.
Do remember that it was Obama that "closed down parks" and "did everything they could to make people feel the cuts", not Congress.
Most of the cuts did nothing that would've been noticed by the average citizen, but you can't generate outrage at Congress with barely noticable cuts. So they spent extra money putting traffic cones up blocking sites from which Mount Rushmore could be photographed, and shut off access to the Tomb of the Unknowns (which normally has no restrictions to access - it's in the middle of a lawn).
Nor the cinema, they're a private property and you're in violation of their rules so they're entitled to ban you for life.
No, it's more a matter of "what I have is good enough for what I want a computer for, why upgrade?"
When something new comes along that requires more horsepower/more storage/more whatever than their current computer, and is a "must have", then they'll upgrade. Otherwise, they'll wait till the current machine breaks.
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So, you're arguing that the Pleistocene was cold because of all the carbon sequestered underground 62+ million years before the Pleistocene started?
Alright, why was the Eocene warmer than now? For that matter, why was the Eocene warmer than the Paleocene, which preceded it, and the Oligocene which followed it?
For that matter, the Eocene's peak temperature was higher than either the Jurrasic or Cretaceous.
And why was the Oligocene colder than the Miocene, which followed it?
What makes you think we want 1g? Perhaps Mars gravity would be sufficient. Or even Lunar gravity. Till we make the experiments, we won't know.
As to minimum size, if we allow for 5% difference in speed between head and feet, we'd need a 40m radius wheel. Or just a 40m long boom with a pod at one end, plus a short boom with a counterweight at the other end (or a really long boom with a much lighter counterweight at the end - depends on what works out to be smallest total mass).
Right after Pearl Harbor, Congress passed declarations of war against Germany and Japan (in response to their declarations of war against us). At that point Roosevelt told Congress that they should go into Recess until the War was over.
Luckily for all of us, they told him to pound sand.
On the other hand, you might improve your literacy by studying foreign languages. Specifically, the one that includes "per se" as a phrase.
Yes, it does. The expert testimony in this case seems to have been that the two versions of the game had substantially similar appearances.
Which might be 100% true.
Alas, nearly (or even actually) identical appearance on the desktop in no way implies nearly (or actually) identical code.
And copyright cases are about code, not appearances.
So, the government does something that people have problems with, which causes them to blame the wealthy...
Yeah, I guess that makes sense.
I'm curious. HOW do they accomplish this?
Social Security is Pay-as-you-go. Which, among other things, means that as the Boomers retire, the ratio of payees to payers is going to go up significantly.
The Social Security "surplus" consists of zero-interest intra-governmental T-Bills, which will be redeemed out of current tax revenues as needed. Which means that every dollar in the SSA "surplus" will produce a dollar of deficit spending when the time comes to "redeem" it.
For all practical purposes, the SSA "surplus" doesn't exist, and never has. Simple test: if it doesn't exist, the Feds pay for SSA by borrowing more money, but if it does, they pay for SSA by...borrowing more money. If the effect of having a thing is exactly the same as the effect of not having it, it doesn't exist.
But the people who want to frighten the general public away from nuclear power just need to get "unsafe" and "nuclear" together in the same headline.
Your average layman isn't going to make the distinction between nuclear power plants and radioisotopes used in medicine when he sees that "unsafe" and "nuclear" together...
Note further that the word "rights" applies to only one of the three entities you mention - the people.
Governments, both State and Federal have "powers", but they don't have "rights".
Archbishop Ussher, is that you??
Why people take an Anglican Archbishop's word on this is beyond me. Especially if they're not Anglican....
If everyone is doing it (as the article proposes), the incentives will evaporate. Tax incentives and government rebates/matching funds/whatever only work if the number of people taking advantage of them is small compared to the total population.
It's nice when you get your neighbors to pay 2/3 the cost of your solar array, not so nice when you have to pay 2/3 the cost of their solar arrays.
Other than that, I question the ability of your system to charge your car reliably if you take your car to work on a regular basis. And if you don't, why do you have it anyway?
Might want to read the Militia Act sometime. It might surprise you to find out that YOU are a member of the militia. As am I. And most likely every other American citizen on /.
US Constitution, Article 3, Section 3. Learn it, love it, live it.
Osama can't be a traitor because he's not an American. An enemy? Sure. A criminal? Yep. A traitor? No. No more than we could have charged Hitler with treason against the USA....
The problem being that the people who want to "preserve liberties" tend to be...selective...about which liberties need preserving.
Note that many First Amendment fanatics tend to be utterly opposed to the Second Amendment. And vice versa, of course.
3/4 of the State legislatures. It takes 2/3 of the States to call a Constitutional Convention to propose new Amendments, but 3/4 to get them approved.
Shades of Wickard v. Filburn! People are getting upset that someone is growing their own food!
Hope those protesters don't find out about farmers...they'd prolly go totally apeshit to know that there are people who make a living growing their own food....
well, the constraints you put on the upper case letters, numbers, and special symbols should make it somewhat easier to brute force that password.
Interesting that you think of socialized healthcare as "free". Trust me, it's being paid for by everyone (including the one getting the "free" healthcare) - but the costs are hidden in your taxes.
L'Anse aux Meadows.
Just a single example of European knowledge in the Americas that predated Columbus.
Your data is on the IRS's system, which this system accesses to determine the subsidies you may (or may not) be eligible for.
Two things to remember:
1) You have to have a certain MINIMUM income to qualify for the subsidies - if you're even $1 per year below that minimum, you get NO subsidies.
2) Healthcare.gov is connected to the IRS computers, which have data on EVERYONE. That's required to compute the subsidies you're eligible for (or not).
NASA? Pretty much everything they do consists of issuing a design spec and taking bids. Even Apollo and Saturn were actually designed by private companies.
Do remember that it was Obama that "closed down parks" and "did everything they could to make people feel the cuts", not Congress.
Most of the cuts did nothing that would've been noticed by the average citizen, but you can't generate outrage at Congress with barely noticable cuts. So they spent extra money putting traffic cones up blocking sites from which Mount Rushmore could be photographed, and shut off access to the Tomb of the Unknowns (which normally has no restrictions to access - it's in the middle of a lawn).
No, it's more a matter of "what I have is good enough for what I want a computer for, why upgrade?"
When something new comes along that requires more horsepower/more storage/more whatever than their current computer, and is a "must have", then they'll upgrade. Otherwise, they'll wait till the current machine breaks.