Newton was a prolific writer and wrote more on theology than anything else (he was a theologean as well as a scientist, alchemist, etc), one example is that he wrote almost a million words looking for meaning in the numerology of 666, including a 6X6 magic square that contained only primes and summed to 666 on each row, column, and diagonal. He also claimed that "Jesus was sent to Earth to operate the levers of gravity". He is remebered for his undeniable genius in science, most of his other writings are (by modern standards) the ramblings of a madman.
Newton was born an Anglican and became a theologean who wrote more on religion than he did on science.The Vatican was incapable of breathing down any englishman's neck at the time because Oliver Cromwell had done his best to kill all the catholics and burn their churches to the ground when Newton was still a boy.
The "end of the year" is an arbitrary date defined by the calendar you use. The Sun held far more significance to ancient people than it does to a modern urbanite, the solstice and equinox dates were observed and celebrated not only for religious reasons but also to give the general population a practical cue when to do things such as plant and harvest crops, look for bird's eggs, fish for salmon, etc.
There were no clocks and calendars to hang on the wall, instead they built structures such a stone henge and people gathered at these observatories on these special days, similar to the way modern humans gather around large clocks to celebrate new year's. These rituals have been going on for at least 10,000yrs and have been practised in one form or another by most, if not all, agricultural civilisations.
That's correct, Dubya has never advocated the genocide of Muslims, and ImaDinnerJacket has never advocated the genocide of Jews. Both have (in)famously asserted that certain nation states are evil and as such should not be allowed to exist. The Bush doctrine goes so far as to formally sanctions the use of preemptive nuclear strikes. Genocide may one day be the result of the Bush doctrine or Iran's nuke program, but it is definitely not the intention of either.
Realeasing the ashes is worse than having them in a container, a tiny fleck of paint once punched a hole 3 inches deep into the space shuttles 4 inch thick windscreen.
I used the calculator on the hourly rate question, how many 4th graders get a perfect score when taking the test at midnight after a few joints and beers?
That's true, but it's also true of a lot of other drugs, eg anti-venom and anti-flu. In each case you're developing tools for examining how a particular "species" works and some of those tools will work on a wide variety species (such as immediately pouring vinegar on insect, spider, and jelly fish stings), over time this tends to flatten the learning curve for the next species you examine.
Not sure about the GP but when I went to school Europe was a continent and Europa was a Jovian moon. OTOH, geopolitical maps have changed quite a bit since the 1960's, so maybe France is obiting Jupiter now.
Perhaps, as is the case in Australia, grazing sheep on marginal land causes the desert
I think you mean goats, which are not a big problem in Oz. Goats eat everything, sheep only do that if they are starving and even then there are a lot of plants they won't touch. That plus the fact the Aussie desert has not grown significantly since the introduction of domesticated animals.
The large delivery companies have been lobbying for at least 20yrs to cripple the USPS and siphon off the best bits. eg: USPS management are not allowed to set their own prices, when they did they paid significant dividends to the government.
If the reason to be in the remote place is of "significant economic importance" then the infrastructure will pop up like a teenage boy in a strip club. It's hard to think of anywhere more remote than NW Australia, yet the mining boom has seen all that infrastructure (plus, ports, roads, rails) put in place long ago. The infrastructure short fall is private housing and all ammner of foodstuff and goodsbut the area will probably be all but abandoned once all the valuable rocks have been extracted. Let's face it Aussies aren't going to move in any numbers from the fertile corner of our island, to the corner that early Dutch explorers described as worthless desert.
Here in Oz we have the CFA (Country Fire Authority) and MFB (Metropolitan Fire Brigade), MFB are paid, CFA are not (except for some admin jobs). If you look into the history of it, up until the great fire of London in the 17th century fire brigades in the UK were private organisations (sort of like an auto club that does roadside repairs), they would only put out their customer's fires, the other houses around were someone else's problem. It was realised by the government of the day that a bunch of competing private companies was no match for the fire hazards of a city like London, so they created their own and elevated them to a similar social position held by police. Similarly the Brits realised that large cities need a public sewer system when 19th century London was literally dying in it's own shit.
Of course the above are examples of where socialism works as advertised, but I'm sure someone will object because their dogma tells them to reject the concept having their wealth redistributed, even if they are receiving more material benefits from it than they could possibly afford by themselves.
If you didn't have to pay those taxes you would have that money.
If nobody paid taxes there would be no money to be had, money requires the backing of a civilization to be trusted, civilizations requires taxes to operate regardless of what type of civilization we're talking about. As for socialisim being the root of all economic evil - Do you burry your turds in your own back yard or do you use the public sewerage system? Do you have a flying car or do you use the public roads and bridges? Do you have a private beach or do you use the public one? Socialisim is all around you everyday, but you're too ideologically blind to see it.
The albedo feedback is one of the mechanisms for rapid descent into glaciation as well as rapid ascent from it.
Yep it amplifies the sign of the forcing, the natural forcing that triggers regular ice ages is the "Milancovich cycle" (Earth's slow orbital wobble). CO2 is also a feedback in the Milancovich cycle that amplifies the sign of the forcing by either being release or locked up in permafrost. With the current warming our GHG emissions is the (main) forcing and we can expect the natural feedbacks to amplify that forcing. On the flip side, man made aerosols are a significant -ve forcing (increases atmospheric albedo) that negates some of the +ve forcing of our GHG emissions.
CO2 and methane are a bit "special", unlike water vapour, ice, aerosols, solar flux, and orbital wobbles, they can act as both as a forcing and a feedback simultaneously.
Yep the albedo feedback is the cause of "polar amplification" - the name given to the faster rate of warming in the Artic mentioned in TFS. It's yet another example of a succesful prediction of a previously unknown phenomena by climate models from the 1980's.
Depends on the type of cow. I don't think Aussie beef cattle would have much of a problem surviving without humans, the cows on large cattle stations already live like other feral animals, such as the herds of water buffalo that live alongside them. It's nothing like a dairy farm where the fenced in pasture is carefully tended and the cows must be milked regularly for their own health.
This is how governments control the masses in "1984".
So your saying this project is putting a camera in everyone's bedroom and tying rats to their faces? Fear and omnipresence was how the fictional government controled the masses in 1984, the masses knew the official history was manafactured bullshit in much the same way as people today know that Fox is a right-wing bullshit factory.
Let me repeat myself - downloading is not a violation of copyright in Australia, regardless of what the MAFIAA thinks. They will have as much chance of getting a judge to subpoena someone for downloading as they would getting a judge to subpoena someone for farting.
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Newton was a prolific writer and wrote more on theology than anything else (he was a theologean as well as a scientist, alchemist, etc), one example is that he wrote almost a million words looking for meaning in the numerology of 666, including a 6X6 magic square that contained only primes and summed to 666 on each row, column, and diagonal. He also claimed that "Jesus was sent to Earth to operate the levers of gravity". He is remebered for his undeniable genius in science, most of his other writings are (by modern standards) the ramblings of a madman.
Newton was born an Anglican and became a theologean who wrote more on religion than he did on science.The Vatican was incapable of breathing down any englishman's neck at the time because Oliver Cromwell had done his best to kill all the catholics and burn their churches to the ground when Newton was still a boy.
rather it's at the end of the (solar) year
The "end of the year" is an arbitrary date defined by the calendar you use. The Sun held far more significance to ancient people than it does to a modern urbanite, the solstice and equinox dates were observed and celebrated not only for religious reasons but also to give the general population a practical cue when to do things such as plant and harvest crops, look for bird's eggs, fish for salmon, etc.
There were no clocks and calendars to hang on the wall, instead they built structures such a stone henge and people gathered at these observatories on these special days, similar to the way modern humans gather around large clocks to celebrate new year's. These rituals have been going on for at least 10,000yrs and have been practised in one form or another by most, if not all, agricultural civilisations.
But yes, it's also a good excuse to party.
That's correct, Dubya has never advocated the genocide of Muslims, and ImaDinnerJacket has never advocated the genocide of Jews. Both have (in)famously asserted that certain nation states are evil and as such should not be allowed to exist. The Bush doctrine goes so far as to formally sanctions the use of preemptive nuclear strikes. Genocide may one day be the result of the Bush doctrine or Iran's nuke program, but it is definitely not the intention of either.
To bury someone means to place their dead body underground
...or place their live body under a large volume of paperwork.
Realeasing the ashes is worse than having them in a container, a tiny fleck of paint once punched a hole 3 inches deep into the space shuttles 4 inch thick windscreen.
I used the calculator on the hourly rate question, how many 4th graders get a perfect score when taking the test at midnight after a few joints and beers?
That's true, but it's also true of a lot of other drugs, eg anti-venom and anti-flu. In each case you're developing tools for examining how a particular "species" works and some of those tools will work on a wide variety species (such as immediately pouring vinegar on insect, spider, and jelly fish stings), over time this tends to flatten the learning curve for the next species you examine.
I havn't seen any one describe why gypsum can't be formed in the absence of water
Gypsum is like beer, in that it's main ingredient is water. Can beer form without water?
Educate yourself about Jupiter's moons
Not sure about the GP but when I went to school Europe was a continent and Europa was a Jovian moon. OTOH, geopolitical maps have changed quite a bit since the 1960's, so maybe France is obiting Jupiter now.
Perhaps, as is the case in Australia, grazing sheep on marginal land causes the desert
I think you mean goats, which are not a big problem in Oz. Goats eat everything, sheep only do that if they are starving and even then there are a lot of plants they won't touch. That plus the fact the Aussie desert has not grown significantly since the introduction of domesticated animals.
I tried that but the little buggers flew to Mexico for the winter.
The large delivery companies have been lobbying for at least 20yrs to cripple the USPS and siphon off the best bits. eg: USPS management are not allowed to set their own prices, when they did they paid significant dividends to the government.
If the reason to be in the remote place is of "significant economic importance" then the infrastructure will pop up like a teenage boy in a strip club. It's hard to think of anywhere more remote than NW Australia, yet the mining boom has seen all that infrastructure (plus, ports, roads, rails) put in place long ago. The infrastructure short fall is private housing and all ammner of foodstuff and goodsbut the area will probably be all but abandoned once all the valuable rocks have been extracted. Let's face it Aussies aren't going to move in any numbers from the fertile corner of our island, to the corner that early Dutch explorers described as worthless desert.
Here in Oz we have the CFA (Country Fire Authority) and MFB (Metropolitan Fire Brigade), MFB are paid, CFA are not (except for some admin jobs). If you look into the history of it, up until the great fire of London in the 17th century fire brigades in the UK were private organisations (sort of like an auto club that does roadside repairs), they would only put out their customer's fires, the other houses around were someone else's problem. It was realised by the government of the day that a bunch of competing private companies was no match for the fire hazards of a city like London, so they created their own and elevated them to a similar social position held by police. Similarly the Brits realised that large cities need a public sewer system when 19th century London was literally dying in it's own shit.
Of course the above are examples of where socialism works as advertised, but I'm sure someone will object because their dogma tells them to reject the concept having their wealth redistributed, even if they are receiving more material benefits from it than they could possibly afford by themselves.
Shoving unix boxes and monitors was my particular favorite act of revenge in the early '90s when I worked at UPS.
Kicking the cat may feel good but it's not revenge, it's frustration.
If you didn't have to pay those taxes you would have that money.
If nobody paid taxes there would be no money to be had, money requires the backing of a civilization to be trusted, civilizations requires taxes to operate regardless of what type of civilization we're talking about. As for socialisim being the root of all economic evil - Do you burry your turds in your own back yard or do you use the public sewerage system? Do you have a flying car or do you use the public roads and bridges? Do you have a private beach or do you use the public one? Socialisim is all around you everyday, but you're too ideologically blind to see it.
Pre Iraq, the Muslim world was united, Muslims would never attach Muslims, and attacking a Mosque was unthinkable.
Poppycock!
I'm sure plenty of people said the same thing during alcohol prohibition, but somehow that was overturned?
The albedo feedback is one of the mechanisms for rapid descent into glaciation as well as rapid ascent from it.
Yep it amplifies the sign of the forcing, the natural forcing that triggers regular ice ages is the "Milancovich cycle" (Earth's slow orbital wobble). CO2 is also a feedback in the Milancovich cycle that amplifies the sign of the forcing by either being release or locked up in permafrost. With the current warming our GHG emissions is the (main) forcing and we can expect the natural feedbacks to amplify that forcing. On the flip side, man made aerosols are a significant -ve forcing (increases atmospheric albedo) that negates some of the +ve forcing of our GHG emissions.
CO2 and methane are a bit "special", unlike water vapour, ice, aerosols, solar flux, and orbital wobbles, they can act as both as a forcing and a feedback simultaneously.
Yep the albedo feedback is the cause of "polar amplification" - the name given to the faster rate of warming in the Artic mentioned in TFS. It's yet another example of a succesful prediction of a previously unknown phenomena by climate models from the 1980's.
No, it's Anthony Watts.
Depends on the type of cow. I don't think Aussie beef cattle would have much of a problem surviving without humans, the cows on large cattle stations already live like other feral animals, such as the herds of water buffalo that live alongside them. It's nothing like a dairy farm where the fenced in pasture is carefully tended and the cows must be milked regularly for their own health.
This is how governments control the masses in "1984".
So your saying this project is putting a camera in everyone's bedroom and tying rats to their faces? Fear and omnipresence was how the fictional government controled the masses in 1984, the masses knew the official history was manafactured bullshit in much the same way as people today know that Fox is a right-wing bullshit factory.
Let me repeat myself - downloading is not a violation of copyright in Australia, regardless of what the MAFIAA thinks. They will have as much chance of getting a judge to subpoena someone for downloading as they would getting a judge to subpoena someone for farting.