If the ocean rises even 2 ft I look forward to discovering many of the new islands that will be created off the the new coast of the US. Islands like Miami, Cape Cod, New Orleans, Washington DC, Central Park NYC
So you contend that the newly discovered islands were once part of a mainland, but have, due to global warming, now had ocean levels rise around them such that there is now no connecting land. Exactly how many feet has the Mean Sea Level risen in the last, say, 20 years, and why have they not updated all of the geological information to indicate that everywhere in the world is several feet less above sea level than it used to be?
On a less faceticious note, given that tides can raise or lower the sea level in an area by sometimes ten feet or more, at what point do you rename a land mass to an island? In order to really be an island should it not always have to have at least a tiny amount of water separating it from a mainland, regardless of the tide? Referencing wikipedia, I find that there is no set distinction. A body that is physically connected to a mainland by a sufficiently small amount of dry land may still be considered an island, while a fairly substantial body of dryland completely surrounded by water may sometimes still be considered part of the mainland.
We should thank global warming, without which we might not have discovered these islands for thousands of years, (unless of course, we looked at seafloor maps which clearly identify them already.)
But most interesting of all, according to the article, is that these newly discovered islands have mountains on them. This means, that global warming has in fact lowered the sea level by hundreds if not thousands of feet in order to reveal these mountains.
Or alternatively, the islands were already there, already had peaks, but nobody knew about them and the discovery of them has nothing to do with global warming.
More than likely some fucktard from HR came up with it and told IT to implement it.
You give the HR department too much credit. What they really did was pay a bunch of third party consultants a crapload of money to bypass IT altogether and implement the timeclock system with no IT involvement, then told IT to support it.
Well, I would imagine that just like with normal clocks, midnight doesn't signify anything other than the start of a new day. So, when the clock gets to midnight it has no particular significance.
I just changed the oil on my GMC Safari and my Lexus ES330. When undoing the oil plug on the Safari, I found that the 3/8 was too small, and the 7/16 too big. Turned out it needed a metric wrench. (I forget the exact size)
However, the 1/2" was the perfect size for the plug.
My theory is that the U.S. Companies are putting more metric stuff on their cars in order to appear to be complying with world standards. While the Japanese companies are using imperial units in order to try to curry favor with U.S. customers.
Dating back to 1337 it must have a totally 1337 basement!
Yeah, but if it is that old, it probably just has the original network configuration, which back then was probably, like, Tolkien Ring.
Are those the new rules that involve getting shot down by the Air Force?
Not in the United States. But it could happen in some countries if you are a missionary peacefully flying with your family.
You're correct that planes can have some effect on clouds. Obviously planes can generate contrails, which are in fact, clouds of a type. Contrails can form both by ice particles clinging to particles in the relatively warm and moist exhaust. However, they can also be formed when conditions are right by the pressure differential from air going over the wing. I have even observed this very rarely at highway speeds as the air rushed by my mirror.
In most instances, this would result in more cloud being formed, rather than some being dissipated, but the idea of generating a six or eight foot hole in a cloud, is pretty unlikely, considering that the air is relatively fluid, and at a pretty consistent density, and will pretty much remain so after the plane has moved through it. The air is MUCH more disturbed by the wing moving through it (as evidenced by one of your pictures) than it is by the body of the plane. But a vertical hole in a cloud is pretty much guranteed not to be created by an airplane.
The "hole in cloud" pictures you provided all seemd to be vertical to me, which lends credence to the theory of rising gases. I wonder if O'hare had a large (few hundred gallons) fuel spill that day that may have evaporated?
I have to think that we as humans are incredibly limiting in our thoughts on extraterrestrial life. If we really want to believe that life could have generated elsewhere, then we should be more accomodating to how it came about. By looking for life of about our size that needs water to survive, we raise the odss against finding such a lifeform to an absurdly small likelihood. We take our limited knowledge of the fundamental building blocks of matter and infer that intelligent life must be forced to conform to that. I think it far more likely to find extraterrestrial life if we could open up our minds to the possibility, no, the probability that the intelligent life could be billions of times larger than us, or billions of times smaller. Perhaps the Earth is an electron circling the nucleus which is the sun, which is just one atom among millions in a hair on the ass of some humongous creature. Or perhaps inside one of the atoms in a hair on my ass resides a small body circulating the nucleus, and on that small body are billions of intelligent creatures.
Perhaps the signals which we are sending out to the universe are in the visible spectrum of some creature, and we are annoying the hell of them with our high beams.
Personally, I don't think there is any other intelligent life out there that is 6 feet tall and is water based. It is much more likely that there is some other intelligent life out there that is made up of something with which we can communicate or is too big or too small or operates on a vastly different time scale such that it cannot be communicated with. But I doubt that even those creatures exist.
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Yes, and the obvious response, as illustrated by the geek community is to say without a doubt that God doesn't exist, and that everyone should devote all their spare cycles to searching for extraterrestrials. Thankfully, only a small contingent of geeks seem to be interested in developing technological solutions to find ghosts.
It's amazing to me that the same people who say without a doubt in their mind that there is no and can be no god, will still believe in extra terrestrials and ghosts. Heck, some people even believe in angels, but not in god.
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The fact observers said it made a hole in the cloud deck for minutes, to me, rules out any purely optical effect. it also rules out it being any kind of large body. Our airplanes do not make holes in clouds. The most likely thing that can make a hole in the cloud deck is something which modified the density of the air in the region. Sounds like a large release of some underground gas. Lucky for the planes it was above the airport and not along the flight paths, because a disturbance that could affect could formation would likely have changed the air density enough to be dangerous for flight.
This same type of phenomenon is one opinion of what may have brought down ships and airplanes in the bermuda Triangle.
It means that the radar is not able to see everything there and surely leaves passenger and flight staff safety in question.
I don't think we are in much danger from tricks of the light. The effects are generally pyschological, not physical.
I had a boss that was verbally abusive. Sometimes he would yell, but mostly he would just quietly berate you. After a couple of years of working for him he had convinced me that I was of no worth to any other company and that I was lucky to have the job.
I liken it to Saruman's hold on King Theoden. I was lucky to see my way through what almost seemed like a spell he had cast on me and my coworkers. I was the third to leave, and in the end 2/3 of the company quit within a space of about 3 months.
Even worse, the Wii is inovative, but the PS3 is not. "Game systems have been around since the 70's." Since this statement applies to the PS3, but the GP touts the WII as innovative, the GP is a definite Nintendo fanboy.
Absolutely agree. I don't know what all the hubbub is about. Why is it so important to argue over LCD versus Plasma? Do we also argue over who should be runner up in the Miss Universe pageant?I researched TVs heavily on the web, in stores, reviews, and user experiences before buying my 52" DLP. DLP beats all, hands down. If I make some more money in the new year, I will be buying yet another DLP, a 62" this time.
Damage also requires more processing power to render the car looking differently. I always wondered why they didn't just go ahead and let the cars look pristine, but to at leat make the damage affect the cars, aerodynamics, suspension, and so forth. If the cars performance would at least take damage then it would force people to drive the simulation more responsibly. But I bet there are plenty of people that would complain because they are just trying to whip through the game and get as many cars as possible.
When I was young, I would do all of my homework first so I could spend the rest of the day doing whatever I wanted. I used to eat the veggies first even though I didn't like them because I didn't want to be miserable sitting at a plate of veggies long after everyone had left the table.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work in the work environment. If you do all of your day's worth of work in the first 6 hours so you can spend the next two browsing the web, then someone is bound to notice that you need more work to do. However, the person who casually browses the web 15 minutes out of each hour gets overlooked. (Even though task switching is less efficient). I discovered that my inate desire to accomplish work first so I could play just resulted in a never-ending stream of work. Therefore it became necessary to inject islands of procrastination in my stream of work in order to avoid doing absolutely nothing with my life but work.
No, it isn't possible that a single driver could be the cause.
I can think of several million examples of one idiot causing traffic congestion. Here's just one. I'm travelling along on a 3 lane road in the middle lane behind a car. Traffic is flowing nicely. There is decent spacing between cars. The car in front of me decides to make a right turn... from the middle lane. Well, there is traffic in the right lane, so the right thing to do is to say "Rats! Missed my turn. Perhaps next time I should get in the right lane BEFORE my turn comes up." However, this person STOPS in the middle lane, and waits for an opportunity to turn through the right lane and onto the side street. This is no easy task, as people behind me were diving into the right lane to go around the obvious clog in the middle lane. (besides the girl who almost rear-ended me and then had no room to go around). The net effect was that the idiot in front of me avoided having to spend an extra minute backtracking from the next street, while cumulatively for the next several minutes, 100 or so people experienced a one minute slowdown. I have observed this happen literally hundreds of times. People will happily cause man-hours of inconvenience, dents, damage, injury, and death to other people in order to save a few seconds of their own time. These people should not be allowed to drive motor vehicles.
As a parent, I was blissfully unaware of the dangers of myspace. Having gottent the general idea of how stupid and pointless it was, I never bothered to visit. Of course, I have repeatedly informed my children of the danger of carrying on conversations with total strangers. So I thought I was covered. Bu the other day, out of curiosity I checked myspace to see if my stepson had an account. It turns out he did, but that the profile was private. Now, I would guess that his profile was private because he doesn't want us (his parents) to see, not because he doesn't want some stranger to see. He probably has all kinds of inappropriate stuff on his myspace page that we would get upset about, so he has it private. This is just a guess, but the fact that he has a picture of himself wearing only boxer shorts on his front page, with a description of himself as a wrestler and his interests as looking to meet people on the internet pretty much means that everything we have told him he has pretty much thrown away and done the opposite.
Now I am sure that a legitimate operation like myspace properly notifies parents that their underage child wants to create an account and automatically grants the parent full access, so I am sure they will be sending me that information shortly.
because I refuse to buy a child a cell phone. Why should I spend $50 a month just so my kid can have an expensive toy that they will lose, break or have stolen? I finally succumbed to buying my 14 year old a cell phone. All of his friends have had them for years (so why does he need one, unless he is wandering off without his friends). It used to be easier to say no, because I didn't have or need a cell phone either. But then my silly company went and bought me one, so it became harder to tell my stepson he didn't need one. Still, I understand why he wants one at such a young age. I was an early adapter, too. I got my first cell phone at the age of only about 22. But after I got rid of that one, I didn't get another one until I was in my 30s.
Why would you buy your employee a laptop if you didn't want it going home? If you want it to stay at work buy them a desktop.
At my company, they expect you to work at home after you have finished working at work for the day, and I don't see how that could happen without them either buying me a computer at home that has access to sensitive data at the office, or buying me a laptop which has access to sensitive data at the office, or possibly even locally.
Until companies decide that a hard days work is sufficient, and a user can power off, go home, and not have to think about work for the next 12 hours, then I don't see laptops going away.
I have a few CFs in my house. Unfortunately, they won't fit many of my existing fixtures, especially ceiling fans. My experience has been that they may be cheaper to run, but cost more and burn out just as frequently as regular bulbs.
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If the ocean rises even 2 ft I look forward to discovering many of the new islands that will be created off the the new coast of the US. Islands like Miami, Cape Cod, New Orleans, Washington DC, Central Park NYC
So you contend that the newly discovered islands were once part of a mainland, but have, due to global warming, now had ocean levels rise around them such that there is now no connecting land. Exactly how many feet has the Mean Sea Level risen in the last, say, 20 years, and why have they not updated all of the geological information to indicate that everywhere in the world is several feet less above sea level than it used to be?
On a less faceticious note, given that tides can raise or lower the sea level in an area by sometimes ten feet or more, at what point do you rename a land mass to an island? In order to really be an island should it not always have to have at least a tiny amount of water separating it from a mainland, regardless of the tide? Referencing wikipedia, I find that there is no set distinction. A body that is physically connected to a mainland by a sufficiently small amount of dry land may still be considered an island, while a fairly substantial body of dryland completely surrounded by water may sometimes still be considered part of the mainland.
then why is Mars experiencing global warming too?
Just like here, the causes are due to man's trremendous affect on the natural climate of Mars.
We should thank global warming, without which we might not have discovered these islands for thousands of years, (unless of course, we looked at seafloor maps which clearly identify them already.)
But most interesting of all, according to the article, is that these newly discovered islands have mountains on them. This means, that global warming has in fact lowered the sea level by hundreds if not thousands of feet in order to reveal these mountains.
Or alternatively, the islands were already there, already had peaks, but nobody knew about them and the discovery of them has nothing to do with global warming.
More than likely some fucktard from HR came up with it and told IT to implement it.
You give the HR department too much credit. What they really did was pay a bunch of third party consultants a crapload of money to bypass IT altogether and implement the timeclock system with no IT involvement, then told IT to support it.
Well, I would imagine that just like with normal clocks, midnight doesn't signify anything other than the start of a new day. So, when the clock gets to midnight it has no particular significance.
I just changed the oil on my GMC Safari and my Lexus ES330. When undoing the oil plug on the Safari, I found that the 3/8 was too small, and the 7/16 too big. Turned out it needed a metric wrench. (I forget the exact size)
However, the 1/2" was the perfect size for the plug.
My theory is that the U.S. Companies are putting more metric stuff on their cars in order to appear to be complying with world standards. While the Japanese companies are using imperial units in order to try to curry favor with U.S. customers.
Dating back to 1337 it must have a totally 1337 basement!
Yeah, but if it is that old, it probably just has the original network configuration, which back then was probably, like, Tolkien Ring.
Are those the new rules that involve getting shot down by the Air Force?
Not in the United States. But it could happen in some countries if you are a missionary peacefully flying with your family.
It has been my experience that most floods in buildings originate with the drainage side and not the supply side.
You're correct that planes can have some effect on clouds. Obviously planes can generate contrails, which are in fact, clouds of a type. Contrails can form both by ice particles clinging to particles in the relatively warm and moist exhaust. However, they can also be formed when conditions are right by the pressure differential from air going over the wing. I have even observed this very rarely at highway speeds as the air rushed by my mirror.
In most instances, this would result in more cloud being formed, rather than some being dissipated, but the idea of generating a six or eight foot hole in a cloud, is pretty unlikely, considering that the air is relatively fluid, and at a pretty consistent density, and will pretty much remain so after the plane has moved through it. The air is MUCH more disturbed by the wing moving through it (as evidenced by one of your pictures) than it is by the body of the plane. But a vertical hole in a cloud is pretty much guranteed not to be created by an airplane.
The "hole in cloud" pictures you provided all seemd to be vertical to me, which lends credence to the theory of rising gases. I wonder if O'hare had a large (few hundred gallons) fuel spill that day that may have evaporated?
I have to think that we as humans are incredibly limiting in our thoughts on extraterrestrial life. If we really want to believe that life could have generated elsewhere, then we should be more accomodating to how it came about. By looking for life of about our size that needs water to survive, we raise the odss against finding such a lifeform to an absurdly small likelihood. We take our limited knowledge of the fundamental building blocks of matter and infer that intelligent life must be forced to conform to that. I think it far more likely to find extraterrestrial life if we could open up our minds to the possibility, no, the probability that the intelligent life could be billions of times larger than us, or billions of times smaller. Perhaps the Earth is an electron circling the nucleus which is the sun, which is just one atom among millions in a hair on the ass of some humongous creature. Or perhaps inside one of the atoms in a hair on my ass resides a small body circulating the nucleus, and on that small body are billions of intelligent creatures.
Perhaps the signals which we are sending out to the universe are in the visible spectrum of some creature, and we are annoying the hell of them with our high beams.
Personally, I don't think there is any other intelligent life out there that is 6 feet tall and is water based. It is much more likely that there is some other intelligent life out there that is made up of something with which we can communicate or is too big or too small or operates on a vastly different time scale such that it cannot be communicated with. But I doubt that even those creatures exist.
Yes, and the obvious response, as illustrated by the geek community is to say without a doubt that God doesn't exist, and that everyone should devote all their spare cycles to searching for extraterrestrials. Thankfully, only a small contingent of geeks seem to be interested in developing technological solutions to find ghosts.
It's amazing to me that the same people who say without a doubt in their mind that there is no and can be no god, will still believe in extra terrestrials and ghosts. Heck, some people even believe in angels, but not in god.
The fact observers said it made a hole in the cloud deck for minutes, to me, rules out any purely optical effect.
it also rules out it being any kind of large body. Our airplanes do not make holes in clouds. The most likely thing that can make a hole in the cloud deck is something which modified the density of the air in the region. Sounds like a large release of some underground gas. Lucky for the planes it was above the airport and not along the flight paths, because a disturbance that could affect could formation would likely have changed the air density enough to be dangerous for flight.
This same type of phenomenon is one opinion of what may have brought down ships and airplanes in the bermuda Triangle.
It means that the radar is not able to see everything there and surely leaves passenger and flight staff safety in question.
I don't think we are in much danger from tricks of the light. The effects are generally pyschological, not physical.
I had a boss that was verbally abusive. Sometimes he would yell, but mostly he would just quietly berate you. After a couple of years of working for him he had convinced me that I was of no worth to any other company and that I was lucky to have the job.
I liken it to Saruman's hold on King Theoden. I was lucky to see my way through what almost seemed like a spell he had cast on me and my coworkers. I was the third to leave, and in the end 2/3 of the company quit within a space of about 3 months.
Even worse, the Wii is inovative, but the PS3 is not. "Game systems have been around since the 70's." Since this statement applies to the PS3, but the GP touts the WII as innovative, the GP is a definite Nintendo fanboy.
Absolutely agree. I don't know what all the hubbub is about. Why is it so important to argue over LCD versus Plasma? Do we also argue over who should be runner up in the Miss Universe pageant?I researched TVs heavily on the web, in stores, reviews, and user experiences before buying my 52" DLP. DLP beats all, hands down. If I make some more money in the new year, I will be buying yet another DLP, a 62" this time.
Damage also requires more processing power to render the car looking differently. I always wondered why they didn't just go ahead and let the cars look pristine, but to at leat make the damage affect the cars, aerodynamics, suspension, and so forth. If the cars performance would at least take damage then it would force people to drive the simulation more responsibly. But I bet there are plenty of people that would complain because they are just trying to whip through the game and get as many cars as possible.
When I was young, I would do all of my homework first so I could spend the rest of the day doing whatever I wanted. I used to eat the veggies first even though I didn't like them because I didn't want to be miserable sitting at a plate of veggies long after everyone had left the table.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work in the work environment. If you do all of your day's worth of work in the first 6 hours so you can spend the next two browsing the web, then someone is bound to notice that you need more work to do. However, the person who casually browses the web 15 minutes out of each hour gets overlooked. (Even though task switching is less efficient). I discovered that my inate desire to accomplish work first so I could play just resulted in a never-ending stream of work. Therefore it became necessary to inject islands of procrastination in my stream of work in order to avoid doing absolutely nothing with my life but work.
No, it isn't possible that a single driver could be the cause.
I can think of several million examples of one idiot causing traffic congestion. Here's just one. I'm travelling along on a 3 lane road in the middle lane behind a car. Traffic is flowing nicely. There is decent spacing between cars. The car in front of me decides to make a right turn... from the middle lane. Well, there is traffic in the right lane, so the right thing to do is to say "Rats! Missed my turn. Perhaps next time I should get in the right lane BEFORE my turn comes up." However, this person STOPS in the middle lane, and waits for an opportunity to turn through the right lane and onto the side street. This is no easy task, as people behind me were diving into the right lane to go around the obvious clog in the middle lane. (besides the girl who almost rear-ended me and then had no room to go around). The net effect was that the idiot in front of me avoided having to spend an extra minute backtracking from the next street, while cumulatively for the next several minutes, 100 or so people experienced a one minute slowdown. I have observed this happen literally hundreds of times. People will happily cause man-hours of inconvenience, dents, damage, injury, and death to other people in order to save a few seconds of their own time. These people should not be allowed to drive motor vehicles.
As a parent, I was blissfully unaware of the dangers of myspace. Having gottent the general idea of how stupid and pointless it was, I never bothered to visit. Of course, I have repeatedly informed my children of the danger of carrying on conversations with total strangers. So I thought I was covered. Bu the other day, out of curiosity I checked myspace to see if my stepson had an account. It turns out he did, but that the profile was private. Now, I would guess that his profile was private because he doesn't want us (his parents) to see, not because he doesn't want some stranger to see. He probably has all kinds of inappropriate stuff on his myspace page that we would get upset about, so he has it private. This is just a guess, but the fact that he has a picture of himself wearing only boxer shorts on his front page, with a description of himself as a wrestler and his interests as looking to meet people on the internet pretty much means that everything we have told him he has pretty much thrown away and done the opposite.
Now I am sure that a legitimate operation like myspace properly notifies parents that their underage child wants to create an account and automatically grants the parent full access, so I am sure they will be sending me that information shortly.
because I refuse to buy a child a cell phone. Why should I spend $50 a month just so my kid can have an expensive toy that they will lose, break or have stolen? I finally succumbed to buying my 14 year old a cell phone. All of his friends have had them for years (so why does he need one, unless he is wandering off without his friends). It used to be easier to say no, because I didn't have or need a cell phone either. But then my silly company went and bought me one, so it became harder to tell my stepson he didn't need one. Still, I understand why he wants one at such a young age. I was an early adapter, too. I got my first cell phone at the age of only about 22. But after I got rid of that one, I didn't get another one until I was in my 30s.
So people who live in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, etc. prefer to be called Asian American? When did this happen?
Why would you buy your employee a laptop if you didn't want it going home? If you want it to stay at work buy them a desktop.
At my company, they expect you to work at home after you have finished working at work for the day, and I don't see how that could happen without them either buying me a computer at home that has access to sensitive data at the office, or buying me a laptop which has access to sensitive data at the office, or possibly even locally.
Until companies decide that a hard days work is sufficient, and a user can power off, go home, and not have to think about work for the next 12 hours, then I don't see laptops going away.
I have a few CFs in my house. Unfortunately, they won't fit many of my existing fixtures, especially ceiling fans. My experience has been that they may be cheaper to run, but cost more and burn out just as frequently as regular bulbs.