I went to primary school in the 60's, ballpoints were not allowed, only fountain pens or pencil. In HS, boys were not allowed to learn typing because "only girls grew up to be typists and secretaries". Nobody had a calculator, even if they did they wouldn't be allowed to use it.
He does have a point, I'm a regular contributor in your sense of the word. I recognised TempleOS as being connected to a slashdot user, so he is a "regular" in the sense that another regular recognises him. I'm also guessing that omnichad is of british descent since his use of the word mimics the way the word would be understood in a british pub.
AC but still a brave post. The fear of the "mentally ill" that "normal" people have is a major problem. I have also had auditory and visual hallucinations on numerous occasions, however it doesn't make me doubt my own sanity since it always happened after working a 73+hr shift on a fishing trawler. The visual ones always happened in a moving car, they were interesting not scary, they would go away if I shifted my visual focus. Auditory ones happened when it was quite and I was alone. They would go way completely after get a good sleep.
Perception is everything. Perhaps if all "normal" people were given a mild acid trip after xmas dinner there would be less fear of the "mentally ill".
Indeed! Vincent Van Gogh did his best work while suffering schizophrenia, Starry Night and Sunflowers are now considered the work of one of the greatest artistic geniuses to ever walk the earth. This guy is (unknowingly?) attempting to put the "art" back into the "art and science of programming", he's unlikely to succeed but he deserves credit for his effort.
C-sharp was already taken in the late 80's, as was "D-flat", both were windowing libraries for DOS. Can't remember if it was Dr Dobb's or Byte magazine that published them.
If you had ever been to the UK you would know it has a lot of empty space. For example, the coast road on the West of Scotland is a lot less populated than the great ocean road here in Oz.
You would hope a Professor of philosophy could get his head around the difference.
Agree, way too many people who should know better still conflate consciousness with intelligence. An ant's nest exhibits intelligent behaviour but it can't contemplate it's own existence, Watson displays the same kind of "mindless" intelligence and consistently outperforms the best human trivia buffs.
Deep sea vents were discovered when I was in my 20's before that we used to think abiogenesis had something to do with lightning hitting a mud puddle. The evidence that life formed around such vets on Earth is strong but inconclusive. Fatty acids from clay in the vent spontaneously form primitive cell membranes (in vents and mud puddles). Sulphur provides chemical energy, porous rock around the vent provides a sponge like scaffold for life to take root and extract passing nutrients. Most importantly the vents are predictable, the deep, still water stabilizes the temperature gradient. Convection currents cycle the fatty cells through the gradient allowing different chemical reactions within the membrane to synchronize themselves to the thermal cycle (much the same as plants match the cycle of night and day). If that really is how life got started then it's likely that primitive cells are still being spontaneously created near these vents today, the practical problem for scientists researching this idea is finding them before evolved life such as shrimp eat them.
Europa has all these conditions and like Earth it's ocean is also oxygenated at the top. Oxygen is vital for multicellular life on Earth, collagen (the stuff that holds individual cells together as multicellular critters) cannot form in an oxygen poor environment. Oxygen in Europa's ocean is replenished differently than it is on Earth. On Europa's surface strong radiation from Jupiter knocks the H2 off the ice and out into space, the free oxygen is returned to the ocean via plate tectonics. Personally I would think it very odd if we didn't find single celled life in Europa's ocean, at the very least it would force Science to radically rethink the conditions that lead to abiogenesis on Earth. What I'm interested to find out is whether life on Europa uses the same self-replicating molecules used by life on Earth, but I doubt I will be around to hear the answer..
Harvard have large investments in coal companies, the obvious answer is to stop burning coal and use something else, but that would leave some of their richest alumni holding "stranded assets". If we use deliberate geoengineering to balance the unintentional geoengineering of the coal industry, who will pay for it? - You can bet it won't be the coal industry, it will be the consumer and taxpayer.
Harvard could make a significant contribution by divesting from coal and telling everybody why, but it has declined to do so. This press release is just a timely distraction.
Are you claiming that the roundup-ready genes have NOT been found in other plants growing near cornfields?
We all know Monsanto are pricks in their dealings with small farmers who refuse to buy their seed, but what "damage" has been done to human health or the environment by GMO plants of any kind? - Resistance to roundup and cabbages that glow in the dark is not "damage".
Aside from that, scientific claims cannot be "proven in court" and your well known non-belief in AGW has nothing to do with science.
In Victoria this would probably be enforced under the "civic compliance" court or the sheriffs office, for example private entities such a toll roads can issue infringement notices for such trivial offences as a late payment of a toll. It looks like the UNSW is using contract law, fines are a common feature of contracts, more so in business to business contracts.
Unfortunately the green movement is rather plagued by poor science.
Yep, that's exactly the point Lovelock makes in the quote, and it's why I make the distinction. You do realise that the founders of greenpeace were respected scientists, right? Lovelock was one of them, by the mid-90's every single one of the founders had left the organisation they founded in disgust. GP did mankind a great service in the 70's/80's by almost single handedly stopping atmospheric testing in my backyard. However during the late 80's political types had well and truly taken over the organisation and the founding scientists wanted nothing to do with their pseudo-science.
The original scientific evidence that plutonium from atmospheric tests was making it's way into the bones of Aussie children and sheep came from a CSIRO scientist in the late 50's, early 60's, he won his (national security) battle with the Australian authorities and published his findings long before the green movement got started.
Correct, it's the indestructible requirement that doesn't scale well. A heavy "package" (AKA indestructible armour) for 5kg or 5g is pretty much the same thing.
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I went to primary school in the 60's, ballpoints were not allowed, only fountain pens or pencil. In HS, boys were not allowed to learn typing because "only girls grew up to be typists and secretaries". Nobody had a calculator, even if they did they wouldn't be allowed to use it.
...or Get Smart episode? - You be the judge.
Yep, 'weasel words' and hyperbole ruin another 'good news' story.
TiO2 is already commonly used for making white paint.
Best AC/DC cover ever.
Chuck Norris.
Does talking to "God" involve having an epileptic seizure?"
No, but it does involve pattern recognition behaviour that is suppressed in "normal" people.
All caps, nice touch!
Nelson laugh is the best I can come up with.
He does have a point, I'm a regular contributor in your sense of the word. I recognised TempleOS as being connected to a slashdot user, so he is a "regular" in the sense that another regular recognises him. I'm also guessing that omnichad is of british descent since his use of the word mimics the way the word would be understood in a british pub.
AC but still a brave post. The fear of the "mentally ill" that "normal" people have is a major problem. I have also had auditory and visual hallucinations on numerous occasions, however it doesn't make me doubt my own sanity since it always happened after working a 73+hr shift on a fishing trawler. The visual ones always happened in a moving car, they were interesting not scary, they would go away if I shifted my visual focus. Auditory ones happened when it was quite and I was alone. They would go way completely after get a good sleep.
Perception is everything. Perhaps if all "normal" people were given a mild acid trip after xmas dinner there would be less fear of the "mentally ill".
Indeed! Vincent Van Gogh did his best work while suffering schizophrenia, Starry Night and Sunflowers are now considered the work of one of the greatest artistic geniuses to ever walk the earth. This guy is (unknowingly?) attempting to put the "art" back into the "art and science of programming", he's unlikely to succeed but he deserves credit for his effort.
C-sharp was already taken in the late 80's, as was "D-flat", both were windowing libraries for DOS. Can't remember if it was Dr Dobb's or Byte magazine that published them.
If you had ever been to the UK you would know it has a lot of empty space. For example, the coast road on the West of Scotland is a lot less populated than the great ocean road here in Oz.
Where in Satan's holy name is a self-taught American programmer with no degrees supposed to go?
To school?
You would hope a Professor of philosophy could get his head around the difference.
Agree, way too many people who should know better still conflate consciousness with intelligence. An ant's nest exhibits intelligent behaviour but it can't contemplate it's own existence, Watson displays the same kind of "mindless" intelligence and consistently outperforms the best human trivia buffs.
I noticed that too, did anti-science spammers get a pay rise recently?
I'm in favor of 'doing something,' as long as it doesn't negatively effect me.
Burning coal is "doing something" and it is negatively impacting everyone..
Deep sea vents were discovered when I was in my 20's before that we used to think abiogenesis had something to do with lightning hitting a mud puddle. The evidence that life formed around such vets on Earth is strong but inconclusive. Fatty acids from clay in the vent spontaneously form primitive cell membranes (in vents and mud puddles). Sulphur provides chemical energy, porous rock around the vent provides a sponge like scaffold for life to take root and extract passing nutrients. Most importantly the vents are predictable, the deep, still water stabilizes the temperature gradient. Convection currents cycle the fatty cells through the gradient allowing different chemical reactions within the membrane to synchronize themselves to the thermal cycle (much the same as plants match the cycle of night and day). If that really is how life got started then it's likely that primitive cells are still being spontaneously created near these vents today, the practical problem for scientists researching this idea is finding them before evolved life such as shrimp eat them.
Europa has all these conditions and like Earth it's ocean is also oxygenated at the top. Oxygen is vital for multicellular life on Earth, collagen (the stuff that holds individual cells together as multicellular critters) cannot form in an oxygen poor environment. Oxygen in Europa's ocean is replenished differently than it is on Earth. On Europa's surface strong radiation from Jupiter knocks the H2 off the ice and out into space, the free oxygen is returned to the ocean via plate tectonics. Personally I would think it very odd if we didn't find single celled life in Europa's ocean, at the very least it would force Science to radically rethink the conditions that lead to abiogenesis on Earth. What I'm interested to find out is whether life on Europa uses the same self-replicating molecules used by life on Earth, but I doubt I will be around to hear the answer..
Harvard have large investments in coal companies, the obvious answer is to stop burning coal and use something else, but that would leave some of their richest alumni holding "stranded assets". If we use deliberate geoengineering to balance the unintentional geoengineering of the coal industry, who will pay for it? - You can bet it won't be the coal industry, it will be the consumer and taxpayer.
Harvard could make a significant contribution by divesting from coal and telling everybody why, but it has declined to do so. This press release is just a timely distraction.
Are you claiming that the roundup-ready genes have NOT been found in other plants growing near cornfields?
We all know Monsanto are pricks in their dealings with small farmers who refuse to buy their seed, but what "damage" has been done to human health or the environment by GMO plants of any kind? - Resistance to roundup and cabbages that glow in the dark is not "damage".
Aside from that, scientific claims cannot be "proven in court" and your well known non-belief in AGW has nothing to do with science.
Agreed, geoengineering the climate is not a popular idea among scientists.
In Victoria this would probably be enforced under the "civic compliance" court or the sheriffs office, for example private entities such a toll roads can issue infringement notices for such trivial offences as a late payment of a toll. It looks like the UNSW is using contract law, fines are a common feature of contracts, more so in business to business contracts.
Unfortunately the green movement is rather plagued by poor science.
Yep, that's exactly the point Lovelock makes in the quote, and it's why I make the distinction. You do realise that the founders of greenpeace were respected scientists, right? Lovelock was one of them, by the mid-90's every single one of the founders had left the organisation they founded in disgust. GP did mankind a great service in the 70's/80's by almost single handedly stopping atmospheric testing in my backyard. However during the late 80's political types had well and truly taken over the organisation and the founding scientists wanted nothing to do with their pseudo-science.
The original scientific evidence that plutonium from atmospheric tests was making it's way into the bones of Aussie children and sheep came from a CSIRO scientist in the late 50's, early 60's, he won his (national security) battle with the Australian authorities and published his findings long before the green movement got started.
scaling issues?
Correct, it's the indestructible requirement that doesn't scale well. A heavy "package" (AKA indestructible armour) for 5kg or 5g is pretty much the same thing.