All of you are forgetting something, very rarely these days are things done to help or save people. In todays world, if something is made, it's only because someone thinks they can make a lot of $ with it. Consequences are an afterthought.
Yes, and it's well known that selling poison disguised as food produces both goodwill in the market and many repeat sales...
No, the people modifying food aren't saying "we don't care how many people our product kills, so long as we make a metric buttload of cash".
What they're generally saying is "if we can find a way to produce more food, cheaper, we can make a metric buttload of cash"....
However, that's not what he wrote. He correctly pointed out that the rounding error is much smaller than the error from the initial measurement. Logically it should be the dominant error that first leads to chaotic behavior.
Alas, TFA is about a situation where they take the SAME inputs (initial measurements), run the program on ten different sets of hardware, and get ten different results.
I fail to see how the same program + same inputs == "differences in inputs cause most of the error"....
Everyone says that, but a basic fact of the universe says that it is vastly cheaper and easier to deliver unprocessed information than it is to deliver carefully filtered and processed information. In other words: by the time your well researched news is ready to be printed it is no longer news and it will have cost a lot of money to research and write.
If you remember, it was the Republicans in 2006 that passed a "reform" bill that forces the Post Office to put $5 billion a year into a pension fund to pay for pensions 75 years into the future.
And it's Detroit that is about to start slashing pensions because they didn't bother to pay for them up front...
One of my credit card companies is trying to force me to go paperless, so they're delaying the processing on the outgoing statement, putting a ridiculously short due date on it, and then applying late fees when my check doesn't show up in time.
Have you considered just putting that credit card in a drawer and never using it? They might take the hint after a while.
Do you want to drive for 12 minutes to just get useless ads?
So, why do you think you need to actually empty your mailbox if it's three miles away?
All I get are ads too. My bills are paid electronically (so I told them not to send me paper copies), anyone important to my life can get with my by email or cellphone.
What comes in the mail generally doesn't make it past the garbage bin between the mailbox and the garage door....
If my mailbox were to be moved that far (it wouldn't, probably just to the end of the street), I'd not even bother to check it unless I knew in advance there would be something I cared about in it....
Being born in certain place does not make you more equal than some foreigners.
So, I take it your government does NO foreign intelligence whatsoever? If it does, it's applying *gasp* different rules to foreigners that to its own citizens.
Now you at least know how non-us-citizens feel when they talk to you guys, basically, "who cares if the NSA taps the whole world, as long as they don't tap us-citizens, suck it"...
Since the NSA is in the spying business (signals analysis and such, not sneaking around spying), the fact that they spy is of no interest to me at all. It's their job.
That said, we have this Constitution thing for a reason, and the NSA violating the Constitution IS if interest to me.
In other words, the NSA spying on foreigners is their job. The NSA spying on ME needs a warrant and/or court order, which they don't have (don't get me started on Secret Courts..).
If you're a foreigner being spied on by the NSA, take it up with your own government. If YOUR government won't protect you from OUR government, consider getting a new government.
my landlord installed the floodlight and the motion detector that runs in.
So, your landlord installed the light on his own property...guess that pretty much means you tell him about your neighbor's complaint, and let him deal with it.
If the school system was doing a proper job and education was engaging and felt worthwhile then attendance would not be a problem.
If there are enough 8-year olds in this country who could possibly find education more engaging than being outside on a Spring day (or being inside playing their favorite computer game), then your theory might work....
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Let me know when the robot starts deciding what to paint, and then we'll talk about overrated "creativity" is....
TENS of wars?
That implies at least twenty, so let's see a list of twenty wars the USA has waged against Asian countries....
Yes, and it's well known that selling poison disguised as food produces both goodwill in the market and many repeat sales...
No, the people modifying food aren't saying "we don't care how many people our product kills, so long as we make a metric buttload of cash".
What they're generally saying is "if we can find a way to produce more food, cheaper, we can make a metric buttload of cash"....
Alas, TFA is about a situation where they take the SAME inputs (initial measurements), run the program on ten different sets of hardware, and get ten different results.
I fail to see how the same program + same inputs == "differences in inputs cause most of the error"....
Which is why I don't pay for news anymore....
Oddly enough, "men" (or the singular "man") is NEVER mentioned in the Bill of Rights.
The phrase "the people" is mentioned quite a lot, of course.
If it's not obvious, GP is talking about the Marines that garrisoned Japan immediately post-WW2. The USA doesn't have six Marine Divisions anymore....
And if it follows projections, it'll be the sixth highest in history this year, in spite of the 30-50% reductions from the last four years.
If....
And it's Detroit that is about to start slashing pensions because they didn't bother to pay for them up front...
Have you considered just putting that credit card in a drawer and never using it? They might take the hint after a while.
So, why do you think you need to actually empty your mailbox if it's three miles away?
All I get are ads too. My bills are paid electronically (so I told them not to send me paper copies), anyone important to my life can get with my by email or cellphone.
What comes in the mail generally doesn't make it past the garbage bin between the mailbox and the garage door....
If my mailbox were to be moved that far (it wouldn't, probably just to the end of the street), I'd not even bother to check it unless I knew in advance there would be something I cared about in it....
Probably not...
Yes.
Now, the census after that? Wouldn't be at all surprised...
Oh, and thanks for giving them the idea....;-)
Wow, I finally have a reason to like/admire Bill Gates....
So, I take it your government does NO foreign intelligence whatsoever? If it does, it's applying *gasp* different rules to foreigners that to its own citizens.
Consider seriously the idea of NOT staying a US ally if it bugs you.
Trust me, if you want to get the US government's attention, wagging nicely whenever they pet you isn't the way to do it.
Try dumping a few Treaties with the USA, and you'll suddenly get a lot more attention.
Since the NSA is in the spying business (signals analysis and such, not sneaking around spying), the fact that they spy is of no interest to me at all. It's their job.
That said, we have this Constitution thing for a reason, and the NSA violating the Constitution IS if interest to me.
In other words, the NSA spying on foreigners is their job. The NSA spying on ME needs a warrant and/or court order, which they don't have (don't get me started on Secret Courts..).
If you're a foreigner being spied on by the NSA, take it up with your own government. If YOUR government won't protect you from OUR government, consider getting a new government.
So, your landlord installed the light on his own property...guess that pretty much means you tell him about your neighbor's complaint, and let him deal with it.
2000lb is a pretty tiny bull elephant....
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Which is why I specified MINIMUM.
Let's see....
According to Google, Antarctica is ~14 million square km, and has an average of about 1.6 km of ice on top of it.
So, call it 22.4 million cubic km of ice. With a density of about 0.92 g/cm^3. So ~20.6 million cubic km of water tied up in that ice sheet.
Surface area of the planet is ~510 milllion square km.
Which gives us ~40 meters of sea level rise as a MINIMUM if the entire ice sheet melts.
Of course, it's not all expected to melt, but hey....
If there are enough 8-year olds in this country who could possibly find education more engaging than being outside on a Spring day (or being inside playing their favorite computer game), then your theory might work....
It'll save the gov the cost of a postage stamp every two years to remind you to pay for your window sticker.
At least, that seems to be the argument they're making.
Purple, green, and gold, you mean?
Okay, now that we have the high-order generalities out of the way, can you provide some specifics?