"Of course the resident's nationality is a factor in deciding whether residency is allowed: in fact it should be the major factor."
Why?
"And the rule should be a simple one: if you are an EU national you are allowed residency in the UK, otherwise not."
Why?
"We also need to cancel these stupid loopholes that allow nationals of ex-Imperial colonies any preferential right of abode."
Why?
"The British Empire ended over 50 years ago!"
Yes and the children the empire left behind are now baby-boomers, eg: I am a British citizen with permenent residency in Oz, since I was 4yo at the time I had no say in my relocation from the UK to Oz in 1964. By your logic I and a few hundered thousand others in my situation should be moved back to the UK but our Aussie born children should not be allowed to go with us, why?
Seven Fielding AKA "Mr two percent" can under certain circumstances hold the balance of power and is the reason the government is having yet another "Yes Minister" inquiry into net censorship. This is why Aussies don't take the "threat" of a mandatory filter seriously, we all know it will never fly. Both sides play this game, it's just political theater to keep independent nuts busy chasing their tails. I believe Fielding has gone off the idea a bit now that his own anti-abortion supporters have appeared on the convienently leaked test blacklist.
Personally I don't want the PP or anyone else with a measley 2% winning a seat via a preference quirk but as you demonstrated, it happens.
I wouldn't know what TFA says, I don't read 'em. What the GP is trying to say is not a metaphor, the mathematical behaviour of ant colonies is usefull from a networking and logistics POV.
Sounds just like every commercial software project I've been involved with over the last 20yrs?
Without knowing the effectiveness of MS's xbox method I can certainly understand any branded console maker wanting to filter out crap from their title list, even a casual observer will see that the brand will live and die by the software it runs.
While I'm an O/S agnostic I do think that since the advent of XP, MS are incorrectly blamed for what are essentially application faults and malware infections inadvertantly installed by a faulty chair to keyboard connection.
Games that don't have other human players bore me quickly. OTOH I kept a win98 machine alive for 8yrs just to play a particular version of Delta Force that I had lost the keys to. The CD died in an unfortunate accident during my last house move and the machine is now a linux sandbox. Perhaps one day I will shell out another $60 for an new title.
"Those years where really bad years for storms and everybody screamed it was Global Warming. Well since then we have had below average seasons and no storms."
The "extreme" weather predicted by models is statistically similar to the extreme highs and lows I have highlighted in the quote from your post above.
As I understand it, if the molecule/atom leaves earth it not only takes the aborbed IR with it but also the larger initial kinectic energy the atom/molecule had before it absorbed the IR. It's probably a fucked up analogy but the way I think of it is that the molecule leaving lowers the pressure ever so slighly*, temprature follows pressure.
*Slight, but the entire atmosphere will escape before the Sun swallows us.
"Sorry, but I didn't get why the stratosphere would cool"
I think you answered your own question with b), as I understand it if the molecule/atom leaves earth it not only takes the aborbed IR with it but also the larger initial kinectic energy the atom/molecule had before it absorbed the IR.
I don't think anyone is advocating abondoning the troops to some sort of purgatory. It's interesting to note that the Vietnam war ended when congress cut off funding.
"Did you know that the Mitchell has flooded three times in the last decade?"
Yes, that's why the valley is chock full of highly productive market gardens not to mention the vast coastal lake system that would putrify without it's inflows as has already happened to the lakes in S Autralia. As for your other links please don't conflate ludites, animal rights actisits and environmentalists as one group marching in lockstep for obviously flawed crusades.
This particular "greenie" agrees with the grandfather of all greenies (James Lovelock) and thinks nukes are PART of the solution but I don't think we need to use it ourselves, I think we should be selling our yellowcake to nations that don't have such an embarrasing wealth of renewables as we do. I also support controlled culls and don't have a problem feeding roo, emu, camel, buffallo, etc, to my dog.
As I said in another post land abuse is the root cause, AGW is the straw that broke the sheeps back. Massive cotton farms and over allocation of irrigation rights have absolutely nothing to do with immigration.
"As I understand it, that reduces the heat radiated to space and raises the temperature at ground level by a small amount."
Roughly one in every four CO2 molecules in the atmosphere has been put there by humans since the start of the industrial revolution, most of it in the last 50yrs.
CO2 absorbs IR radiated from the Earth and converts it into kinetic energy, after a certain time it will remit the energy as a phioton and slow down again.
This means that in the stratosphere where molecules are widely spaced the CO2 has a high chance of either escaping to space or remmiting a photon that escapes to space. Models (Hansen late 80's) predicted this would cause a cooling stratosphere and indeed sattelite mesurements have confirmed the predictions.
However in the bottom 5Km of atmosphere, where our weather takes place, the molecules are packed tighter and the CO2 is more likely to lose the kinetic energy by transfering it in a random collision with another molecule.
It's common for psuedo-skeptics such as Bob Carter to conflate the startosphere measurements with ground measurements in order to dishonestly push their adgenda.
"I haven't heard that the temperature increase over the past few centuries is sufficient enough to cause dramatically more energetic weather. Natural variation is instead probably responsible for these extremes. Well that and the media's sudden interest in extreme weather phenomena."
The jury is still out on observations of more severe weather but fundementally more heat means more turbulence. I don't think anyone knows how significant that extra turbulence might turn out to be but natural variation on top of the AGW trend is almost certainly feeding the seemingly constant rewriting of record books.
Lived here nearly 50yrs and the climate certainly has been fucked up for the last 10 of those. In particular I now consistently get a layer of dust on my car in Melbourne in winter time. That "Mars feeling" is a good description of what it was like in Melbourne a couple of summers ago, except it was smoke from bushfires that shrouded the city for almost a month, we've had smoke/dust in the past that lasted for a day or two but not every day for 4 weeks.
I've seen a few of them, that one look like the early 80's in Melbourne, this one covered a much wider area, and yes they do look awesome until they roll over your house but not as menacing as the 15km high smoke plume on black saturday.
No, farcical is believing an obvious lie such as the claim that an active super volcano is melting either or both poles.
Also you haven't defined "worst dustorm"? - I would assume TFA is measuring the duststorm by the area it covered. In which case this one would be the "worst" of the two since it streached from South Australia to Queensland where as the 1984 one (that I experienced as it rolled over Bairnsdale) only covered Victoria and parts of NSW / S.Australia, at a rough guess that's about 1/4 of the area.
"It's the first year of el nino, the ground is going to be dry"
El Nino has not kicked in yet and it is NOT forecast to do so this year, this dust has accumulated under El Nina conditions. When ENSO does in fact flip to El Nino conditions the ground is going to get even dryer than it already is.
Did you (while reading up on non-existant volcanos), fail to notice that the majority of Aussies are living with strict water rationing laws? Are you unaware that practically all the state capitals in the country are frantically pouring billion$ into building some of the largest desal plants on the planet? Have you not noticed that most aussie grain harvests over the last 10yrs have seen a 50-60% drop in size when compared to pre 1990 averages? Is there not a giant scar on the Victorian bush from what was an upnprecedented firestorm (I say this having wittnessed first hand all three major fires in living memeory, 2009, 1984 & 1968(?) ). Are the hydro plants in Tassie not silent due to lack of water in their recently completed dams? Is Melbourne currently not at it's lowest winter water reserves on record?
Please also explain to us (without invoking invisable volcanos) why an entire forrest of 600yo river red gums has not survived this particular drought, when according to you conditions have been much worse at various times in the last century or so.
Like some of the other replies, I really have no explaination for why people post bullshit like the steaming pile in your post, is it attempted gallows humor? Are you paid?
"I am sure there has been at least one nearly successful action in the US since 2001 that is utterly classified because it would tend to cause a panic"
Why would they hide panic inducing information while simultaneously filling the airwaves with panic inducing disinformation?
I don't think they prosecute on statistical evidence (yet), this thing just flags "interesting" relationships, it's just a fancy version of looking up all Sarah Conner's in the phone book.
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"Of course the resident's nationality is a factor in deciding whether residency is allowed: in fact it should be the major factor."
Why?
"And the rule should be a simple one: if you are an EU national you are allowed residency in the UK, otherwise not."
Why?
"We also need to cancel these stupid loopholes that allow nationals of ex-Imperial colonies any preferential right of abode."
Why?
"The British Empire ended over 50 years ago!"
Yes and the children the empire left behind are now baby-boomers, eg: I am a British citizen with permenent residency in Oz, since I was 4yo at the time I had no say in my relocation from the UK to Oz in 1964. By your logic I and a few hundered thousand others in my situation should be moved back to the UK but our Aussie born children should not be allowed to go with us, why?
Seven Fielding AKA "Mr two percent" can under certain circumstances hold the balance of power and is the reason the government is having yet another "Yes Minister" inquiry into net censorship. This is why Aussies don't take the "threat" of a mandatory filter seriously, we all know it will never fly. Both sides play this game, it's just political theater to keep independent nuts busy chasing their tails. I believe Fielding has gone off the idea a bit now that his own anti-abortion supporters have appeared on the convienently leaked test blacklist.
Personally I don't want the PP or anyone else with a measley 2% winning a seat via a preference quirk but as you demonstrated, it happens.
"I am a dinosouar"
And I've got the primative writing skills to prove it!
I am a dinosouar, now get of my lawn.
You cannot use your phone's gps, the logical distintion between legal and illegal is the definition of "hand free".
"All they will do is reduce the polution output"
Well yeah, that's kinda the whole point, right?
I wouldn't know what TFA says, I don't read 'em. What the GP is trying to say is not a metaphor, the mathematical behaviour of ant colonies is usefull from a networking and logistics POV.
Sounds just like every commercial software project I've been involved with over the last 20yrs?
Without knowing the effectiveness of MS's xbox method I can certainly understand any branded console maker wanting to filter out crap from their title list, even a casual observer will see that the brand will live and die by the software it runs.
While I'm an O/S agnostic I do think that since the advent of XP, MS are incorrectly blamed for what are essentially application faults and malware infections inadvertantly installed by a faulty chair to keyboard connection.
Games that don't have other human players bore me quickly. OTOH I kept a win98 machine alive for 8yrs just to play a particular version of Delta Force that I had lost the keys to. The CD died in an unfortunate accident during my last house move and the machine is now a linux sandbox. Perhaps one day I will shell out another $60 for an new title.
Yeah, but who belives models! /jk
"Those years where really bad years for storms and everybody screamed it was Global Warming. Well since then we have had below average seasons and no storms."
The "extreme" weather predicted by models is statistically similar to the extreme highs and lows I have highlighted in the quote from your post above.
"Is global warming over?"
Yes, go back to sleep.
Thanks for the ozone link.
As I understand it, if the molecule/atom leaves earth it not only takes the aborbed IR with it but also the larger initial kinectic energy the atom/molecule had before it absorbed the IR. It's probably a fucked up analogy but the way I think of it is that the molecule leaving lowers the pressure ever so slighly*, temprature follows pressure.
*Slight, but the entire atmosphere will escape before the Sun swallows us.
"Sorry, but I didn't get why the stratosphere would cool"
I think you answered your own question with b), as I understand it if the molecule/atom leaves earth it not only takes the aborbed IR with it but also the larger initial kinectic energy the atom/molecule had before it absorbed the IR.
I don't think anyone is advocating abondoning the troops to some sort of purgatory. It's interesting to note that the Vietnam war ended when congress cut off funding.
"Did you know that the Mitchell has flooded three times in the last decade?"
Yes, that's why the valley is chock full of highly productive market gardens not to mention the vast coastal lake system that would putrify without it's inflows as has already happened to the lakes in S Autralia. As for your other links please don't conflate ludites, animal rights actisits and environmentalists as one group marching in lockstep for obviously flawed crusades.
This particular "greenie" agrees with the grandfather of all greenies (James Lovelock) and thinks nukes are PART of the solution but I don't think we need to use it ourselves, I think we should be selling our yellowcake to nations that don't have such an embarrasing wealth of renewables as we do. I also support controlled culls and don't have a problem feeding roo, emu, camel, buffallo, etc, to my dog.
As I said in another post land abuse is the root cause, AGW is the straw that broke the sheeps back. Massive cotton farms and over allocation of irrigation rights have absolutely nothing to do with immigration.
"As I understand it, that reduces the heat radiated to space and raises the temperature at ground level by a small amount."
Roughly one in every four CO2 molecules in the atmosphere has been put there by humans since the start of the industrial revolution, most of it in the last 50yrs.
CO2 absorbs IR radiated from the Earth and converts it into kinetic energy, after a certain time it will remit the energy as a phioton and slow down again.
This means that in the stratosphere where molecules are widely spaced the CO2 has a high chance of either escaping to space or remmiting a photon that escapes to space. Models (Hansen late 80's) predicted this would cause a cooling stratosphere and indeed sattelite mesurements have confirmed the predictions.
However in the bottom 5Km of atmosphere, where our weather takes place, the molecules are packed tighter and the CO2 is more likely to lose the kinetic energy by transfering it in a random collision with another molecule.
It's common for psuedo-skeptics such as Bob Carter to conflate the startosphere measurements with ground measurements in order to dishonestly push their adgenda.
"I haven't heard that the temperature increase over the past few centuries is sufficient enough to cause dramatically more energetic weather. Natural variation is instead probably responsible for these extremes. Well that and the media's sudden interest in extreme weather phenomena."
The jury is still out on observations of more severe weather but fundementally more heat means more turbulence. I don't think anyone knows how significant that extra turbulence might turn out to be but natural variation on top of the AGW trend is almost certainly feeding the seemingly constant rewriting of record books.
Lived here nearly 50yrs and the climate certainly has been fucked up for the last 10 of those. In particular I now consistently get a layer of dust on my car in Melbourne in winter time. That "Mars feeling" is a good description of what it was like in Melbourne a couple of summers ago, except it was smoke from bushfires that shrouded the city for almost a month, we've had smoke/dust in the past that lasted for a day or two but not every day for 4 weeks.
I've seen a few of them, that one look like the early 80's in Melbourne, this one covered a much wider area, and yes they do look awesome until they roll over your house but not as menacing as the 15km high smoke plume on black saturday.
"Climate change is a farce."
No, farcical is believing an obvious lie such as the claim that an active super volcano is melting either or both poles.
Also you haven't defined "worst dustorm"? - I would assume TFA is measuring the duststorm by the area it covered. In which case this one would be the "worst" of the two since it streached from South Australia to Queensland where as the 1984 one (that I experienced as it rolled over Bairnsdale) only covered Victoria and parts of NSW / S.Australia, at a rough guess that's about 1/4 of the area.
"It's the first year of el nino, the ground is going to be dry"
El Nino has not kicked in yet and it is NOT forecast to do so this year, this dust has accumulated under El Nina conditions. When ENSO does in fact flip to El Nino conditions the ground is going to get even dryer than it already is.
Did you (while reading up on non-existant volcanos), fail to notice that the majority of Aussies are living with strict water rationing laws? Are you unaware that practically all the state capitals in the country are frantically pouring billion$ into building some of the largest desal plants on the planet? Have you not noticed that most aussie grain harvests over the last 10yrs have seen a 50-60% drop in size when compared to pre 1990 averages? Is there not a giant scar on the Victorian bush from what was an upnprecedented firestorm (I say this having wittnessed first hand all three major fires in living memeory, 2009, 1984 & 1968(?) ). Are the hydro plants in Tassie not silent due to lack of water in their recently completed dams? Is Melbourne currently not at it's lowest winter water reserves on record?
Please also explain to us (without invoking invisable volcanos) why an entire forrest of 600yo river red gums has not survived this particular drought, when according to you conditions have been much worse at various times in the last century or so.
Like some of the other replies, I really have no explaination for why people post bullshit like the steaming pile in your post, is it attempted gallows humor? Are you paid?
"I am sure there has been at least one nearly successful action in the US since 2001 that is utterly classified because it would tend to cause a panic"
Why would they hide panic inducing information while simultaneously filling the airwaves with panic inducing disinformation?
I don't think they prosecute on statistical evidence (yet), this thing just flags "interesting" relationships, it's just a fancy version of looking up all Sarah Conner's in the phone book.
"The more FM, the better."
I think it's best to stop loading FM before the cannon gets hot enough to cook breakfast on, YMMV.