I'd hope they'll recycle most of it. A small tank/pump would allow ascent/descent without spilling much. But NASA has piddled away a lot of helium on the shuttle so you can't be too sure.
Much of what made the Green Revolution so successful wouldn't be acceptable to the organic farming True Believers - pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, cultivation practices, etc. But billions of lives have been saved by using them. Genetically Modified crops are the next extension of that revolution. Like it or not, people need to eat.
charge-parity (CP) violation—would have allowed normal matter to prevail over antimatter so that normal matter could go on to form all of the stuff we see in the universe today
If the violation had been the other way around we'd probably still call ourselves the ones that matter. Or something. Just like in war, the victor gets to write the history and physics books.
What I get out of the article is that Anonymous' huge stash of documents amounts to a big nothing. What did they find? It seems the good stuff is beyond the reach of a few script kiddies; imagine that.
Yea, Six Party talks, humanitarian assistance, blah, blah, blah. Instead of giving them the reward ahead of time, how about an agreement where they have to do something first and get the carrot afterward?
but in effect Anonymous' structure is exactly that of your standard terrorist organization
Let's think this through, first does Anonymous engage in terrorism?
terrorism
1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.
Violence? Not physical violence that we know of. But certainly "threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes" is basically what they do. I doubt most of them are really "ideologically motivated", they have always seemed more like a bunch of attention whores. They use political or social issues to get sympathy/justify their actions.
It sounds like there are ways to use non-toxic chemicals (they just choose to use toxic chemicals).
We keep hearing that the chemicals are a closely kept secret (which drives the tree-huggers crazy), yet at the same time we hear that the chemicals are toxic.
Back in the mid-60's a great-uncle of mine bought small farm in Southeastern Ohio. He had a well drilled to supply water for his livestock; but instead of water the driller hit natural gas. There wasn't enough to sell, but he did have the well capped and used the gas to heat his house.
Gas in water wells is very common. People who have gas in their water probably had it since the day the well was drilled. Testing it after a gas well was drilled a couple of miles away proves nothing unless they also had it tested before the drilling started.
Droughts occur frequently in this region, the Mayans had reservoirs but it wasn't enough. Most likely is that the population had grown during a wet period, then couldn't be sustained in a drought cycle.
The 760 AD drought signaled the end of a 200 year ‘wet’ period in the Yucatan, during this time the cities prospered, but populations grew to such great numbers that agricultural production became over stretched.
Yea, people like Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi, who both own millions in Apple stock (Gore is # 5 on the list of individual stockholders), Pelosi cashed out a lot of her shares a couple of years ago.
Depends on how they do their accounting and how much of the "cash" is unrealized capital gains. I might be mistaken but I believe capital gains for corporations is taxes the same as ordinary income (35%?). Also Apple probably build up this hoard by deferring the income (and tax) so there's likely a liability there too.
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I hate stock buyback plans, but this is one of the few times it would make sense
It's worse that that. The stock price is so high because investors expect the company to be profitable in the future; but if those profits are never distributed to the stockholders then where's the value? In order to be worth the current price the investment has to pay some return (ignoring the dot-com type of speculation that drives up the price of a company's stock before it comes crashing down as we saw in the 90's).
If Apple distributes the cash as dividends the stock price will (probably) drop in proportion to the amount of money that's distributed, unless stockholders think there's potential for even bigger profits and another dividend in the future.
That's the beauty of not having a two-party system. The winning party almost never gets anything close to a majority. Of course this is close to what happened in the US in 1992 when Ross Perot drew enough Republican votes to allow Clinton to slip in with a whopping 42% of the popular vote.
Interesting that TFA has this quote near the bottom:
“With the rise of the Web, writing has met its photography...a technology so much better at doing what the art form had been trying to do..” — Kenneth Goldsmith
I completely disagree. Photography and painting are different art forms; and telling a story linearly is different from giving the reader the option of following different paths through a hypertext document.
Bottom line is that good writing is already hard to do, adding this extra dimension makes it beyond the ability of most writers (and readers).
Got a class of bright kids, you will look awesome.
Not if the evaluation is done as suggested above: year-over-year progress of the students in the class. In a situation like that a good teacher could probably make a huge difference by getting the students who have fallen behind because they had a bad teacher last year.
What it would highlight is how bad the idea of "mainstreaming" is. When a teacher has to spend a disproportionate amount of time with one or two students, the bright kids have to suffer.
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Actually most people don't really care. Activists have been successful because for the vast majority it's a non-issue.
I'd hope they'll recycle most of it. A small tank/pump would allow ascent/descent without spilling much. But NASA has piddled away a lot of helium on the shuttle so you can't be too sure.
Much of what made the Green Revolution so successful wouldn't be acceptable to the organic farming True Believers - pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, cultivation practices, etc. But billions of lives have been saved by using them. Genetically Modified crops are the next extension of that revolution. Like it or not, people need to eat.
The "fail" in Canada was with Roundup Ready wheat. But it's now "a matter of when, not if" GE wheat becomes commercially grown.
FTA:
charge-parity (CP) violation—would have allowed normal matter to prevail over antimatter so that normal matter could go on to form all of the stuff we see in the universe today
If the violation had been the other way around we'd probably still call ourselves the ones that matter. Or something. Just like in war, the victor gets to write the history and physics books.
This is Slashdot, not Fark...
What I get out of the article is that Anonymous' huge stash of documents amounts to a big nothing. What did they find? It seems the good stuff is beyond the reach of a few script kiddies; imagine that.
Oh for some mod points...
Yea, Six Party talks, humanitarian assistance, blah, blah, blah. Instead of giving them the reward ahead of time, how about an agreement where they have to do something first and get the carrot afterward?
It doesn't sound like he kept his hands very clean this time.
but in effect Anonymous' structure is exactly that of your standard terrorist organization
Let's think this through, first does Anonymous engage in terrorism?
terrorism 1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.
Violence? Not physical violence that we know of. But certainly "threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes" is basically what they do. I doubt most of them are really "ideologically motivated", they have always seemed more like a bunch of attention whores. They use political or social issues to get sympathy/justify their actions.
It sounds like there are ways to use non-toxic chemicals (they just choose to use toxic chemicals).
We keep hearing that the chemicals are a closely kept secret (which drives the tree-huggers crazy), yet at the same time we hear that the chemicals are toxic.
Which is it?
Actual first hand story:
Back in the mid-60's a great-uncle of mine bought small farm in Southeastern Ohio. He had a well drilled to supply water for his livestock; but instead of water the driller hit natural gas. There wasn't enough to sell, but he did have the well capped and used the gas to heat his house.
Gas in water wells is very common. People who have gas in their water probably had it since the day the well was drilled. Testing it after a gas well was drilled a couple of miles away proves nothing unless they also had it tested before the drilling started.
Droughts occur frequently in this region, the Mayans had reservoirs but it wasn't enough. Most likely is that the population had grown during a wet period, then couldn't be sustained in a drought cycle.
The 760 AD drought signaled the end of a 200 year ‘wet’ period in the Yucatan, during this time the cities prospered, but populations grew to such great numbers that agricultural production became over stretched.
Why would there be motivation to spread propaganda about the Mayans being killed off?
See references to AGW, poor black people, and peak oil up above. Everybody has an agenda
we send it all to the 1%
Yea, people like Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi, who both own millions in Apple stock (Gore is # 5 on the list of individual stockholders), Pelosi cashed out a lot of her shares a couple of years ago.
Depends on how they do their accounting and how much of the "cash" is unrealized capital gains. I might be mistaken but I believe capital gains for corporations is taxes the same as ordinary income (35%?). Also Apple probably build up this hoard by deferring the income (and tax) so there's likely a liability there too.
I hate stock buyback plans, but this is one of the few times it would make sense
It's worse that that. The stock price is so high because investors expect the company to be profitable in the future; but if those profits are never distributed to the stockholders then where's the value? In order to be worth the current price the investment has to pay some return (ignoring the dot-com type of speculation that drives up the price of a company's stock before it comes crashing down as we saw in the 90's).
If Apple distributes the cash as dividends the stock price will (probably) drop in proportion to the amount of money that's distributed, unless stockholders think there's potential for even bigger profits and another dividend in the future.
...that he doesn't spill the coffee in his lap while up there. Oh wait...
...with only 39% of the popular vote.
That's the beauty of not having a two-party system. The winning party almost never gets anything close to a majority. Of course this is close to what happened in the US in 1992 when Ross Perot drew enough Republican votes to allow Clinton to slip in with a whopping 42% of the popular vote.
Of course Apple is working on exactly this. Why else would it keep coming up on Slashdot?
How many daughters have unfriended their own mother after an argument? I know a few.
...now everyone can have their own tablet and fight over control of the boob tube.
And do people really feel the need for an "'appified' approach to organizing content" on their TV? Sheesh, get a life.
Interesting that TFA has this quote near the bottom:
“With the rise of the Web, writing has met its photography. ..a technology so much better at doing what the art form had been trying to do..” — Kenneth Goldsmith
I completely disagree. Photography and painting are different art forms; and telling a story linearly is different from giving the reader the option of following different paths through a hypertext document.
Bottom line is that good writing is already hard to do, adding this extra dimension makes it beyond the ability of most writers (and readers).
please remind me again how the modern human is 'designed to eat meat', and how 'natural' meat is
Here's a pretty good article on the subject.
I would guess that political stability and business climate are near the bottom of the list of priorities when it comes to locating a data center!
Politics are pretty stable in Illinois: the governor serves for a few years, then goes to jail.
Got a class of bright kids, you will look awesome.
Not if the evaluation is done as suggested above: year-over-year progress of the students in the class. In a situation like that a good teacher could probably make a huge difference by getting the students who have fallen behind because they had a bad teacher last year.
What it would highlight is how bad the idea of "mainstreaming" is. When a teacher has to spend a disproportionate amount of time with one or two students, the bright kids have to suffer.