why is it not legal? it is legal to search a person boarding a plane.
one can always make it "voluntary", so that the volunteers go right through and the rest are carefully searched.
i think privacy in the home and on personal property is important, but privacy on public grounds (airports, roads) should yield to safety and fairness.
I find sapphires are much prettier too. And it's a damn hard rock. Tanzanite is interesting too, and I don't believe they have lab created tanzanite yet (though they do make "faux" cubic zirconium tanzanite).
>but I suppose that they compared their data not with that of cloudy days but with data from other, clear days during similar times of the year.
well, the only way to resolve this argument is to read the Nature article. (I haven't yet.) Have you?
I believe they would have compared the contrail-less data with just average September days. How would you sort out which days were "clear"? (and which days you would thow out because they weren't "clear" enough?)
The fact that it was published in Nature is impressive but clearly no argument that it is flawless. (It could have been published because it is such a unique study, does not have any obvious flaws, and is interesting.)
good point, setting things up should be considered part of the installation.
setting up winmodems are especially a pain in linux, especially if you have no easy access to other networked computers. you need to first research (online) which linmodem you need, then download it, and set it up.
then since basically all isp's don't "support" unix machines need to fiddle with that. (not too hard if you've done it before, but not always trivial either)
not somethign the typical joe wants to do.
on an ethernet network, i'll believe the claim that most big linux distro's are faster and as easy to set up as windows. (also; once set up, unix is so stable, you won't need to mess with it again until you upgrade.)
It would be a nice idea if somebody put together a CD with as many linmodem drivers and documentation, some helpful how to's, and maybe the latest version of mozilla, etc. for those of us who still use dial up at home.
their argument that high altitude clouds or contrails reduce the variation of temperature may make sense; yet i still don't buy your argument that they have reasonable statistical certainty. They have essentially data for a fraction of one season, for one year.
It may have been a total fluke that the skies nationwide were clearer during those days in Sept 2001. In fact if I remember correctly Sept. 11 was a beautiful day weatherwise, on both the east and west coast; blue skies generally. The case that there were fewer high altitude clouds may have had little to do with contrails at all.
The fact that this "single" datapoint agrees so well may just have been a case of exceptionally blue skies during that week.
"Their conclusion: Without jets or contrails, the clear skies boosted the temperature swing between daytime highs and nighttime lows by about 3 degrees nationwide."
Looks like these flimsy AP journalists forgot their error margins; or maybe the original authors didn't have a way to produce reasonable error margins. If I had to take a guess the result would be something like 3 degrees +- 5 deg.
yes, otherwise if it's just a blimp why wouldn't it look like a blimp? all that extra surface area (per volume) on the delta would seem to only slow the aircraft down.
the book you pointed out sounds like a good read; the cover on the picture looks very much like the craft from the original article in this thread. thanks.
So you are assuming this is a lighter than air airship.
What it the buoyancy effect is just used as a freebie, and the large wing area also contributes to the lift significanty, even at low speeds like 35mph.
Anyway, you can't land a 747 on a cornfield, the dunes, etc. I would think a stall speed around 30mph would be a useful feature for a large transport.
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drinking only affects safety on the road. Give me one study that links alcohol and accidents in aircraft.
one can always make it "voluntary", so that the volunteers go right through and the rest are carefully searched.
i think privacy in the home and on personal property is important, but privacy on public grounds (airports, roads) should yield to safety and fairness.
I find sapphires are much prettier too. And it's a damn hard rock. Tanzanite is interesting too, and I don't believe they have lab created tanzanite yet (though they do make "faux" cubic zirconium tanzanite).
well, the only way to resolve this argument is to read the Nature article. (I haven't yet.) Have you?
I believe they would have compared the contrail-less data with just average September days. How would you sort out which days were "clear"? (and which days you would thow out because they weren't "clear" enough?)
The fact that it was published in Nature is impressive but clearly no argument that it is flawless. (It could have been published because it is such a unique study, does not have any obvious flaws, and is interesting.)
setting up winmodems are especially a pain in linux, especially if you have no easy access to other networked computers. you need to first research (online) which linmodem you need, then download it, and set it up.
then since basically all isp's don't "support" unix machines need to fiddle with that. (not too hard if you've done it before, but not always trivial either)
not somethign the typical joe wants to do.
on an ethernet network, i'll believe the claim that most big linux distro's are faster and as easy to set up as windows. (also; once set up, unix is so stable, you won't need to mess with it again until you upgrade.)
It would be a nice idea if somebody put together a CD with as many linmodem drivers and documentation, some helpful how to's, and maybe the latest version of mozilla, etc. for those of us who still use dial up at home.
their argument that high altitude clouds or contrails reduce the variation of temperature may make sense; yet i still don't buy your argument that they have reasonable statistical certainty. They have essentially data for a fraction of one season, for one year. It may have been a total fluke that the skies nationwide were clearer during those days in Sept 2001. In fact if I remember correctly Sept. 11 was a beautiful day weatherwise, on both the east and west coast; blue skies generally. The case that there were fewer high altitude clouds may have had little to do with contrails at all. The fact that this "single" datapoint agrees so well may just have been a case of exceptionally blue skies during that week. "Their conclusion: Without jets or contrails, the clear skies boosted the temperature swing between daytime highs and nighttime lows by about 3 degrees nationwide." Looks like these flimsy AP journalists forgot their error margins; or maybe the original authors didn't have a way to produce reasonable error margins. If I had to take a guess the result would be something like 3 degrees +- 5 deg.
and what is h in barn slugs per year?
yes, otherwise if it's just a blimp why wouldn't it look like a blimp? all that extra surface area (per volume) on the delta would seem to only slow the aircraft down. the book you pointed out sounds like a good read; the cover on the picture looks very much like the craft from the original article in this thread. thanks.
Seems to me the average USA Today reader doesn't have a clue what Linux is.
So you are assuming this is a lighter than air airship. What it the buoyancy effect is just used as a freebie, and the large wing area also contributes to the lift significanty, even at low speeds like 35mph. Anyway, you can't land a 747 on a cornfield, the dunes, etc. I would think a stall speed around 30mph would be a useful feature for a large transport.