Formaldehyde oxidizes to Formic Acid in atmosphere. It has a half-life of about 1-2 hours unless hydroxyl ions are present, then it lasts around 12 hours.
"Formaldehyde is an essential metabolic intermediate in all cells. It is produced during the normal metabolism of serine, glycine, methionine, and choline and also by the demethylation of N-, S-, and O-methyl compounds. As such, it is a normal metabolite, and enters into the chain of biochemical events in humans and other animals to give rise to essential cellular substances.... In humans, the overall evidence for cancer is inconsistent and associations are relatively weak when significant."
The EPA simple guidelines for exposure are here: https://www.epa.gov/aegl/forma... The units are ppm or mg/m^3. For most food products Formaldehyde concentrations are in micro-grams/Kg. The complete 71 page EPA report is here, and explains AEGL: https://www.epa.gov/sites/prod... Most individuals will notice the distinct, pungent odor of formaldehyde at the AEGL-1, less than 1ppm, and experience eye irritation. At AEGL-2 formaldehyde causes mild lacrimation (like a tear gas), at 14ppm. At AEGL-3 death occurs at100ppm for 10 minutes or in 8 hours at 35ppm.
"Then, start your OWN website and make up your own rules."
Were it that simple.
Google's management decides that they don't like your content and your site isn't listed in any search listing or its on the 30th page. Might as well be on a sign planted on the Moon.
Besides Google, those that created their own website to express their own views without censorship find that their hosting company CEO decides unilaterally that he/she doesn't like what they see on the site so they delete its domain name and IP.
Strangely, though, most of the blocking, shadow banning, or account deletions are with those whose views are anti-"Progressive", i.e., Marxist. Just a causal examination of tweets and youtube accounts immediately shows the difference.
"Cue monopolies everywhere and heavy lobbying to keep competition scarce and prices high."
I had been using TW's Internet service for years. The local price started at around $5/1Mb/Mo For the last several years I had been paying $30/mo for a 30Mbps connection. Then, a msg in my bill said my "promotion rate" would end next month. The next month my bill for 30Mbps jumped to $70. One month later it jumped to $120 for 30Mbps, with about 18Mbps download and 6Mbps upload. That's when I started looking around for something else. There was nothing available. No competition. I called them up and told them it was outrageous to jack the bill that way. The worker bee couldn't do anything except read the script he was given, which was to offer me a 60Mpbs connection for $65 as a "promotion". With no choice I took it. However, a fiber optic company located in my state made a proposition to the city fathers offering them 1Gbps connections to all state gov buildings, libraries and schools for "free", in exchange for access rights on state right-of-ways. The state accepted and within a year I had fiber optic to my house. I opted for the 100Mbps for $65, with a static IP for an additional $5/mo. The speed is symmetrical. Spectrum felt the competition and began offering 100Mbps for the same price, but their service is still asymmetrical. To compete the fiber optic company merely increased my connection speed to 300Mpbs for the same money. The copper wire cable company was already using maximum compression on their antiquated structure and couldn't compete at the high speeds so they are going cheap at the low end. Competition is good.
Indeed. I was ingtrigued so I downloaded their clear-22880-live.img.xz. Chekcsummed it, unxz'd to 5.6GB and then used their recommended dd command to install it on an 8Gb USB stick. Took 1,042 seconds. It wouldn't boot.
So, I re-burned it using Etcher-electron. Still wouldn't boot. mmm... Maybe 8GB isn't big enough?
Pulled out a 64GB USB stick and used Etcher again. Still wouldn't boot.
Put FAT32 on the 8GB stick and Btrfs on the 64GB stick and called it an afternoon.
Modern farming is just a way of converting oil into food.
It takes 7X more oil energy to bring food to your table than you get from eating it.
At the turn of the 19th century more than 9 out of 10 people were involved in farming and feeding themselves and the other person. Now, less than 1 percent feed the other 99+% and they use machines powered by oil & coal to do it. Alternative forms of energy do not have the energy density of fossil fuels, and cannot replace them for planting, growing, harvesting, transporting and processing foods that end up on your grocery shelves. To take fossil fuel out of the equation is to condemn hundreds of millions of people to die of starvation. That would be criminal. On the other hand, at the rate we are consuming fossil fuels, if the world were a ball of oil and we had a source of oxygen to burn it at the accelerating rate we have now, that ball would be burned up in 450 years, give or take a few. Long before then humanity will be returning to animal labor to grow food for those who survive the transition.
All you really are saying is that you've had no experience installing Linux in the last 10 years. Here is a video clip showing Kubuntu 18.04 being installed as a guest host in VirtualBox. https://youtu.be/BYB1FiUCvGE?t... You can't get any simpler unless you pre-install it by customer order at the factory, which is what System76 does.
If you want to have the year of the Linux desktop having an installer that doesn't automatically turn off 99.9+% of users is probably a good idea.
.... The more popular Linux gets the more it transforms into Windows.....
It doesn't look like M$ is going to have the "Year of Win10" anytime soon, https://bit.ly/2I2n6F2 because Win10, launched 2 years ago, is still 8% behind Win7, which was launched 9 years ago, and it's not trending up except in M$'s PR blurbs.
The installer on most Linux distros are similar to each other and to Windows, except that Linux users have to reboot only once per install, and that is to start up the system.
My first experience with a graphical Linux desktop which was equal to or better than WinXP was KDE 1.0 Beta on SuSE 5.3 in September of 1998. I've used KDE every since. For the last three years I have been running KDE Neon User Edition, which uses KDE Plasma-desktop 5.12.5, on top of my favorite filesystem, Btrfs. Plasma's beauty, speed, power and flexibility leaves all versions of WinX in the dust, and I've programmed in all of them except Win10. Plasma is even more beautiful than VISTA was, and considerably faster and more reliable. Btrfs is equally awesome.
Well, when I recently installed Ubuntu LTSR server I was timewarped back more than 20 years because the install process was exactly the same one I used to install Redhat Linux in the 90's......
On May 1, 1998 I installed RH 5.0 as my first Linux experience. It's installer did not look or behave anything like the installer on Kubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver), which is based on Ubuntu 18.04, that I installed last week. RH did not have the graphical map of the US that allowed geographical selection of the time zone. It did not have a partition editor comparable to gparted because Gnome wasn't around back then.
Besides, if you are the Linux guru server installer that you seem to want us to believe, what are you doing with a GUI on a headless server anyway? That's a noob tactic.
As the use of personal grew corporations like Microsoft peddled software applications like Word and later Office to each PC owner, manufacturing millions of CD install discs. Piracy is impossible to control and corporations began looking for other ways. Hosting servers that offered access to office software for monthly or yearly fees solved two problems. It allowed Microsoft to upgrade their "cloud" servers and avoid previous sales or distribution methods for new sales or updates and patches, and, it allowed them to charge for storing users work files. Microsoft had thus achieved its original goals: charging per use of applications, not per application, and cutting down on manufacturing and distribution expenses.
Recent news has pointed out the vulnerability of cloud security, and I suspect that we are hearing only the tip of the iceberg, but that's another issue. The real issue relates to market share. How can Microsoft and the other big corporations increase their market share? By forcing those who refuse to use the cloud to move to it. How will they do that? By bribing (a.k.a. lobbying) Congress to pass laws forbidding computer makers from including internal storage of any capacity, for reasons of "security", or allowing USB ports to use USB sticks with any significant capacity. Chromebook has blazed the trail in this direction.
Future PCs will not be bootable at all without an Internet connection to approved sites. You cancel your "subscription" to that cloud service and your PC is bricked. You will be allowed to transfer to another cloud service only after you pay for a "transfer" fee and a "termination" fee, which allows your current cloud operator to transfer your login credentials to the other cloud. So why bother? Where ever you go on the Internet your presence will be recorded via the GUID stored in your boot prom. Anonymous browsing will be illegal. So will be access to the Dark Web. And it goes without saying that Linux and FOSS, although not formally declared illegal, will never have access to this "secure" PC paradigm.
What to know what politics will be acceptable on this new web of clouds? See what Twitter, FB, YouTube and the like are doing to free speech now. They don't like what you write? They declare you to be a "", and ban or cancel your account for "hate speech".
Each of those companies have abused and failed to secure people's data many thousands of times a year
Saying it is, doesn't make it so.
Microsoft just fought and lost a years-long battle over this very thing, as Congress now mandates that those companies abuse and fail to secure our data as a matter of law.
Oh so putting yourself in a position where your data may be discovered by a legal process is bad, I get it now. In the business we call this outsourcing. I mean it's not like you get to keep this data when the feds come knocking on *your* door right?
But seriously if all you have to go on is legal compliance then I consider this an incredible positive result.
Are you trolling, or are you able to understand what he is saying? When you troll saying "... I get it now", you actually have no clue. Watch and learn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
When I took a typing class in HS in the late 1950s I was taught to put two spaces after the period at the end of a sentence. I was also taught to put two lines between paragraphs, and to indent the beginning line of a paragraph by one tab, which was usually set to two spaces as well.
I first recalled seeing to tabs at the start of a paragraph and one blank line at the end of a paragraph in scifi books I read in the 1980s, IIRC. Publishers apparently did it to save paper. HD storage is a commodity and space is not a problem any more.
The Air Force released a report that computed the costs for 66 ULA launches for Air Force from 2016 to 2022. They averaged out at $322 million per launch. SpaceX average launch costs are between $62 and $95 million. Besides using the Russian RD-180 as its first stage engine, it can't compete by throwing away that engine and first stage after each launch. The ULA is supposedly negotiating with Bezos to use his main rocket engine.
The ULA's launch of the Mars InSight Lander was classic 1960 launch techniques. At T -3 we heard "Range Safety? Go. Guidence? Go...." for what seemed like forever. A bunch of old men watching monitors. Someone forgot to put up the performance figures until after MECO. When the lander was ejected towards Mars they all stood up and shook each other's hands, except when they saw female staff... they hugged them.
At SpaceX most of the engineers are all young and wearing Gap. They cheer at each event.... launch, MECO, SSE, re-entry burn, landing burn and landing, SSCO, satellite ejection. Every event gets cheers and claps. It's a pleasure to watch people enjoy their work.
ULA has begun a propaganda and lobbying campaign to counter SpaceX's innovation and performance.
A "sexist" is one who thinks women cannot defend themselves. The OP wasn't sexist, you took only half of his quote. The part you conveniently ignored states but since like C++ before it, it was still deemed too hard for women,
It's plain to see that Anonymous didn't insert those words, but you left them out. Sexist?
Before you let someone talk you into doing that consider this: Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food." - Dr Albert Bartlett http://www.albartlett.org/arti...
It takes 7 times as much oil energy to bring a slice of toast to your breakfast table as you get from it when you eat it.
Renewable energy is not dense enough to power farm implements or pump water in volumes needed in modern agriculture. Limit the use of oil and you are going to condemn several billion to starve to death. You may be among the unfortunate. But, it almost goes without saying, that the elite who push AGW won't be among those who suffer for their political plans.
Regardless, at the present rate we are consuming oil, if the entire planet were a ball of oil we would burn it up in 400-600 years. Even with horizontal drilling, which is currently making the US the largest oil exporter in the world, we will need to find and produce as much oil in the next ten years as we've used since 1858.
If fusion energy does not come online in the next 10-15 years we are toast.
If the atmosphere were opaque to IR radiation an IR photo of the Earth would be black. It is not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Very little of the atmosphere is blocking IR radiation.
There are maybe 1500 volcanoes that are known to have been active in the past 10,000 years. There are 1,200,000,000 motor vehicles in the world that operate day after day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Year after year.
These are vastly more powerful than a car exhaust so if we are going to abandon science how are you going to show that a car exhausts damage the environment while erupting volcanoes, forest fires etc. do not?
Nobody says they don't contribute to climate change, but volcanoes do not contribute to man-made climate change. But you change the things you can. You stop digging. You do what you can, instead of being paralyzed by the things you can't fix immediately.
For every example you can come up with there is an opposite just as "logical" counter example which is why logic is not going to help you.
Gotta be honest with you, bro: your "logic" is for shit.
The USGS says that there are about 1,500 volcanoes in the world, but you've overlooked a VERY large source of gaseous emissions, submarine volcanoes ("smokers"), of which it is estimated that there are over 1 million. Those facts are not the correct paradigm to use when evaluating "man made" CO2. The ONLY paradigm to use is the annual coal, oil and gas consumption. Using those figures there is little guessing. They have been computed to be 29 gigatons per year. Compare that to the 750 gigatons of CO2 estimated to be moving through the Carbon cycle each year. That's 3.8% of the total. Recent studies have shown that volcanoes release 600 million tons per year, a six fold increase in the last two decades. Will that figure increase some more? The Carbon cycle includes Oxygen, CO2, water, Sun light, green plants and animals that eat them and breath out CO2. There are now 7.6 times as many people eating green plants as there were in 1800. There are 7.6 times as many green plants now as then, or there about. Most of it is phytoplankton in the sea. Just like in the past, CO2 cycled with plant and animal life. Late Carboniferous to Early Permian time (315 mya -- 270 mya) is the only time period in the last 600 million years when both atmospheric CO2 and temperatures were as low as they are today (Quaternary Period ). In the Jurassic and Devonian periods CO2 was 7 to 10 times higher than it is today, and the Earth didn't enter into a runaway greenhouse condition.
In the early 1970s the great scare was a "man-made" Ice Age. According to news reports of the time "all scientists agreed" that it was real. The proposed cure was to spread soot on the North and South poles. Imagine the catastrophe that would have resulted if that hysteria had continued. Fortunately, the Club Of Rome diverted our attention with positive proof that we were all going to starve, in the form of a computer program (sound familiar?) titled "Limits to World Growth". Their predictions for this time period were wildly inaccurate, just as Gore's predictions that by 2014 the North pole ice would be melted.
In the previous two perils: a new ice age, limits to growth; the "cure" was some form of Socialism. Ditto for "Climate Change" (AGW). Carbon Credits made Gore a mufti-millionaire, and several Chinese Communist politburo members billionaire.
Lake Michigan contains 1.5x10^15 gallons. 7 million gallons equals 1/2 of one millionth of 1 percent of that water. 61% will be returned back to the lake, the rest will evaporate into the atmosphere, contributing to precipition somewhere downwind, sooner or later.
What's the problem, other than the Left's hatred of Capitalism?
The IPCC was chaired by a railroad engineer, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, and the Left never complained. He even shared a Nobel prize with another non-scientist, Al Gore, in 2007, not because of his scientific work but for his political connections, just like Gore. Protected from corruption charges by political cronies, Pacharui lost their support when sexual abuse accusations were leveled at him, because an accusation sexual abuse is equal to guilt in Leftist theology, and he resigned in 2015.
So, you don't have to be a scientist to hold positions of power in the AGW community. Your only requirement is to remain loyal to the AGW agenda.
Lots of posts in this thread contain what the posters think are funny putdowns about flat earth and other nonsense, but they swallow hook, line and sinker one of the greatest examples of Lysenkoism the Left has ever produced.
"Clearly you hate women, and probably black people also, but the thing is that we are not going to MAGA like it's the 1950s. You have to move one, fucktard."
Clearly you can't read and have no sense or memory of history. All you can do is name call using tired, over used tropes of "hate" and "racism". Hillary said "All women must be heard!" AFTER she spent a lifetime attacking Bill's sexual abuse victims as if they were porn stars angling current politics to make a buck. It's not the 1960s Marxist revolution, even if your "brown shirt" AntiFa, disguised in Black shirts, think it is, You should be moving on.
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^^^^ This
"Environmental Pollution Agency"
Indeed!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Formaldehyde oxidizes to Formic Acid in atmosphere.
It has a half-life of about 1-2 hours unless hydroxyl ions are present, then it lasts around 12 hours.
"Formaldehyde is an essential metabolic intermediate in all cells. It is produced during the normal metabolism of serine, glycine, methionine, and choline and also by the demethylation of N-, S-, and O-methyl compounds. As such, it is a normal metabolite, and enters into the chain of biochemical events in humans and other animals to give rise to essential cellular substances. ... In humans, the overall evidence for cancer is inconsistent and associations are relatively weak when significant."
The EPA simple guidelines for exposure are here:
https://www.epa.gov/aegl/forma...
The units are ppm or mg/m^3. For most food products Formaldehyde concentrations are in micro-grams/Kg.
The complete 71 page EPA report is here, and explains AEGL:
https://www.epa.gov/sites/prod...
Most individuals will notice the distinct, pungent odor of formaldehyde at the AEGL-1, less than 1ppm, and experience eye irritation. At AEGL-2 formaldehyde causes mild lacrimation (like a tear gas), at 14ppm. At AEGL-3 death occurs at100ppm for 10 minutes or in 8 hours at 35ppm.
"Then, start your OWN website and make up your own rules."
Were it that simple.
Google's management decides that they don't like your content and your site isn't listed in any search listing or its on the 30th page. Might as well be on a sign planted on the Moon.
Besides Google, those that created their own website to express their own views without censorship find that their hosting company CEO decides unilaterally that he/she doesn't like what they see on the site so they delete its domain name and IP.
Strangely, though, most of the blocking, shadow banning, or account deletions are with those whose views are anti-"Progressive", i.e., Marxist. Just a causal examination of tweets and youtube accounts immediately shows the difference.
"Cue monopolies everywhere and heavy lobbying to keep competition scarce and prices high."
I had been using TW's Internet service for years. The local price started at around $5/1Mb/Mo For the last several years I had been paying $30/mo for a 30Mbps connection. Then, a msg in my bill said my "promotion rate" would end next month. The next month my bill for 30Mbps jumped to $70. One month later it jumped to $120 for 30Mbps, with about 18Mbps download and 6Mbps upload. That's when I started looking around for something else. There was nothing available. No competition. I called them up and told them it was outrageous to jack the bill that way. The worker bee couldn't do anything except read the script he was given, which was to offer me a 60Mpbs connection for $65 as a "promotion". With no choice I took it. However, a fiber optic company located in my state made a proposition to the city fathers offering them 1Gbps connections to all state gov buildings, libraries and schools for "free", in exchange for access rights on state right-of-ways. The state accepted and within a year I had fiber optic to my house. I opted for the 100Mbps for $65, with a static IP for an additional $5/mo. The speed is symmetrical. Spectrum felt the competition and began offering 100Mbps for the same price, but their service is still asymmetrical. To compete the fiber optic company merely increased my connection speed to 300Mpbs for the same money. The copper wire cable company was already using maximum compression on their antiquated structure and couldn't compete at the high speeds so they are going cheap at the low end. Competition is good.
"ignores the overheads such as installing"
Indeed. I was ingtrigued so I downloaded their clear-22880-live.img.xz. Chekcsummed it, unxz'd to 5.6GB and then used their recommended dd command to install it on an 8Gb USB stick. Took 1,042 seconds.
It wouldn't boot.
So, I re-burned it using Etcher-electron. Still wouldn't boot. mmm... Maybe 8GB isn't big enough?
Pulled out a 64GB USB stick and used Etcher again. Still wouldn't boot.
Put FAT32 on the 8GB stick and Btrfs on the 64GB stick and called it an afternoon.
When (IF) you install Kubuntu agian use Btrfs as your root filesystem.
Modern farming is just a way of converting oil into food.
It takes 7X more oil energy to bring food to your table than you get from eating it.
At the turn of the 19th century more than 9 out of 10 people were involved in farming and feeding themselves and the other person. Now, less than 1 percent feed the other 99+% and they use machines powered by oil & coal to do it. Alternative forms of energy do not have the energy density of fossil fuels, and cannot replace them for planting, growing, harvesting, transporting and processing foods that end up on your grocery shelves. To take fossil fuel out of the equation is to condemn hundreds of millions of people to die of starvation. That would be criminal. On the other hand, at the rate we are consuming fossil fuels, if the world were a ball of oil and we had a source of oxygen to burn it at the accelerating rate we have now, that ball would be burned up in 450 years, give or take a few. Long before then humanity will be returning to animal labor to grow food for those who survive the transition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"Yes, but they all lack a decent editor..."
ROF, LLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
All you really are saying is that you've had no experience installing Linux in the last 10 years.
Here is a video clip showing Kubuntu 18.04 being installed as a guest host in VirtualBox.
https://youtu.be/BYB1FiUCvGE?t...
You can't get any simpler unless you pre-install it by customer order at the factory, which is what System76 does.
Did it have the redneck language choice?
No, it doesn't copy Microsoft.
If you want to have the year of the Linux desktop having an installer that doesn't automatically turn off 99.9+% of users is probably a good idea.
.... The more popular Linux gets the more it transforms into Windows. ....
It doesn't look like M$ is going to have the "Year of Win10" anytime soon,
https://bit.ly/2I2n6F2
because Win10, launched 2 years ago, is still 8% behind Win7, which was launched 9 years ago, and it's not trending up except in M$'s PR blurbs.
The installer on most Linux distros are similar to each other and to Windows, except that Linux users have to reboot only once per install, and that is to start up the system.
My first experience with a graphical Linux desktop which was equal to or better than WinXP was KDE 1.0 Beta on SuSE 5.3 in September of 1998. I've used KDE every since. For the last three years I have been running KDE Neon User Edition, which uses KDE Plasma-desktop 5.12.5, on top of my favorite filesystem, Btrfs. Plasma's beauty, speed, power and flexibility leaves all versions of WinX in the dust, and I've programmed in all of them except Win10. Plasma is even more beautiful than VISTA was, and considerably faster and more reliable. Btrfs is equally awesome.
Well, when I recently installed Ubuntu LTSR server I was timewarped back more than 20 years because the install process was exactly the same one I used to install Redhat Linux in the 90's. .....
On May 1, 1998 I installed RH 5.0 as my first Linux experience. It's installer did not look or behave anything like the installer on Kubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver), which is based on Ubuntu 18.04, that I installed last week. RH did not have the graphical map of the US that allowed geographical selection of the time zone. It did not have a partition editor comparable to gparted because Gnome wasn't around back then.
Besides, if you are the Linux guru server installer that you seem to want us to believe, what are you doing with a GUI on a headless server anyway? That's a noob tactic.
managed by you.
As the use of personal grew corporations like Microsoft peddled software applications like Word and later Office to each PC owner, manufacturing millions of CD install discs. Piracy is impossible to control and corporations began looking for other ways. Hosting servers that offered access to office software for monthly or yearly fees solved two problems. It allowed Microsoft to upgrade their "cloud" servers and avoid previous sales or distribution methods for new sales or updates and patches, and, it allowed them to charge for storing users work files. Microsoft had thus achieved its original goals: charging per use of applications, not per application, and cutting down on manufacturing and distribution expenses.
Recent news has pointed out the vulnerability of cloud security, and I suspect that we are hearing only the tip of the iceberg, but that's another issue. The real issue relates to market share. How can Microsoft and the other big corporations increase their market share? By forcing those who refuse to use the cloud to move to it. How will they do that? By bribing (a.k.a. lobbying) Congress to pass laws forbidding computer makers from including internal storage of any capacity, for reasons of "security", or allowing USB ports to use USB sticks with any significant capacity. Chromebook has blazed the trail in this direction.
Future PCs will not be bootable at all without an Internet connection to approved sites. You cancel your "subscription" to that cloud service and your PC is bricked. You will be allowed to transfer to another cloud service only after you pay for a "transfer" fee and a "termination" fee, which allows your current cloud operator to transfer your login credentials to the other cloud. So why bother? Where ever you go on the Internet your presence will be recorded via the GUID stored in your boot prom. Anonymous browsing will be illegal. So will be access to the Dark Web. And it goes without saying that Linux and FOSS, although not formally declared illegal, will never have access to this "secure" PC paradigm.
What to know what politics will be acceptable on this new web of clouds? See what Twitter, FB, YouTube and the like are doing to free speech now. They don't like what you write? They declare you to be a "", and ban or cancel your account for "hate speech".
Each of those companies have abused and failed to secure people's data many thousands of times a year
Saying it is, doesn't make it so.
Microsoft just fought and lost a years-long battle over this very thing, as Congress now mandates that those companies abuse and fail to secure our data as a matter of law.
Oh so putting yourself in a position where your data may be discovered by a legal process is bad, I get it now. In the business we call this outsourcing. I mean it's not like you get to keep this data when the feds come knocking on *your* door right?
But seriously if all you have to go on is legal compliance then I consider this an incredible positive result.
Are you trolling, or are you able to understand what he is saying? When you troll saying " ... I get it now", you actually have no clue. Watch and learn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
When I took a typing class in HS in the late 1950s I was taught to put two spaces after the period at the end of a sentence. I was also taught to put two lines between paragraphs, and to indent the beginning line of a paragraph by one tab, which was usually set to two spaces as well.
I first recalled seeing to tabs at the start of a paragraph and one blank line at the end of a paragraph in scifi books I read in the 1980s, IIRC. Publishers apparently did it to save paper. HD storage is a commodity and space is not a problem any more.
The Air Force released a report that computed the costs for 66 ULA launches for Air Force from 2016 to 2022. They averaged out at $322 million per launch. SpaceX average launch costs are between $62 and $95 million. Besides using the Russian RD-180 as its first stage engine, it can't compete by throwing away that engine and first stage after each launch. The ULA is supposedly negotiating with Bezos to use his main rocket engine.
The ULA's launch of the Mars InSight Lander was classic 1960 launch techniques. At T -3 we heard "Range Safety? Go. Guidence? Go. ..." for what seemed like forever. A bunch of old men watching monitors. Someone forgot to put up the performance figures until after MECO. When the lander was ejected towards Mars they all stood up and shook each other's hands, except when they saw female staff ... they hugged them.
At SpaceX most of the engineers are all young and wearing Gap. They cheer at each event .... launch, MECO, SSE, re-entry burn, landing burn and landing, SSCO, satellite ejection. Every event gets cheers and claps. It's a pleasure to watch people enjoy their work.
ULA has begun a propaganda and lobbying campaign to counter SpaceX's innovation and performance.
A "sexist" is one who thinks women cannot defend themselves.
The OP wasn't sexist, you took only half of his quote. The part you conveniently ignored states
but since like C++ before it, it was still deemed too hard for women,
It's plain to see that Anonymous didn't insert those words, but you left them out. Sexist?
Before you let someone talk you into doing that consider this: Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food."
- Dr Albert Bartlett
http://www.albartlett.org/arti...
It takes 7 times as much oil energy to bring a slice of toast to your breakfast table as you get from it when you eat it.
Renewable energy is not dense enough to power farm implements or pump water in volumes needed in modern agriculture. Limit the use of oil and you are going to condemn several billion to starve to death. You may be among the unfortunate. But, it almost goes without saying, that the elite who push AGW won't be among those who suffer for their political plans.
Regardless, at the present rate we are consuming oil, if the entire planet were a ball of oil we would burn it up in 400-600 years. Even with horizontal drilling, which is currently making the US the largest oil exporter in the world, we will need to find and produce as much oil in the next ten years as we've used since 1858.
If fusion energy does not come online in the next 10-15 years we are toast.
If the atmosphere were opaque to IR radiation an IR photo of the Earth would be black. It is not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Very little of the atmosphere is blocking IR radiation.
There are maybe 1500 volcanoes that are known to have been active in the past 10,000 years. There are 1,200,000,000 motor vehicles in the world that operate day after day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Year after year.
Nobody says they don't contribute to climate change, but volcanoes do not contribute to man-made climate change. But you change the things you can. You stop digging. You do what you can, instead of being paralyzed by the things you can't fix immediately.
Gotta be honest with you, bro: your "logic" is for shit.
The USGS says that there are about 1,500 volcanoes in the world, but you've overlooked a VERY large source of gaseous emissions, submarine volcanoes ("smokers"), of which it is estimated that there are over 1 million. Those facts are not the correct paradigm to use when evaluating "man made" CO2. The ONLY paradigm to use is the annual coal, oil and gas consumption. Using those figures there is little guessing. They have been computed to be 29 gigatons per year. Compare that to the 750 gigatons of CO2 estimated to be moving through the Carbon cycle each year. That's 3.8% of the total. Recent studies have shown that volcanoes release 600 million tons per year, a six fold increase in the last two decades. Will that figure increase some more?
The Carbon cycle includes Oxygen, CO2, water, Sun light, green plants and animals that eat them and breath out CO2. There are now 7.6 times as many people eating green plants as there were in 1800. There are 7.6 times as many green plants now as then, or there about. Most of it is phytoplankton in the sea. Just like in the past, CO2 cycled with plant and animal life.
Late Carboniferous to Early Permian time (315 mya -- 270 mya) is the only time period in the last 600 million years when both atmospheric CO2 and temperatures were as low as they are today (Quaternary Period ). In the Jurassic and Devonian periods CO2 was 7 to 10 times higher than it is today, and the Earth didn't enter into a runaway greenhouse condition.
In the early 1970s the great scare was a "man-made" Ice Age. According to news reports of the time "all scientists agreed" that it was real. The proposed cure was to spread soot on the North and South poles. Imagine the catastrophe that would have resulted if that hysteria had continued. Fortunately, the Club Of Rome diverted our attention with positive proof that we were all going to starve, in the form of a computer program (sound familiar?) titled "Limits to World Growth". Their predictions for this time period were wildly inaccurate, just as Gore's predictions that by 2014 the North pole ice would be melted.
In the previous two perils: a new ice age, limits to growth; the "cure" was some form of Socialism. Ditto for "Climate Change" (AGW). Carbon Credits made Gore a mufti-millionaire, and several Chinese Communist politburo members billionaire.
Lake Michigan contains 1.5x10^15 gallons. 7 million gallons equals 1/2 of one millionth of 1 percent of that water.
61% will be returned back to the lake, the rest will evaporate into the atmosphere, contributing to precipition somewhere downwind, sooner or later.
What's the problem, other than the Left's hatred of Capitalism?
Laughs in Linux.
Error! Broken depository.
Dang it...
"depository" ? LOL!
Windows doesn't use a "depository", unless you are referring to the OS itself, and Linux uses repositories.
The IPCC was chaired by a railroad engineer, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, and the Left never complained. He even shared a Nobel prize with another non-scientist, Al Gore, in 2007, not because of his scientific work but for his political connections, just like Gore. Protected from corruption charges by political cronies, Pacharui lost their support when sexual abuse accusations were leveled at him, because an accusation sexual abuse is equal to guilt in Leftist theology, and he resigned in 2015.
So, you don't have to be a scientist to hold positions of power in the AGW community. Your only requirement is to remain loyal to the AGW agenda.
Lots of posts in this thread contain what the posters think are funny putdowns about flat earth and other nonsense, but they swallow hook, line and sinker one of the greatest examples of Lysenkoism the Left has ever produced.
"Clearly you hate women, and probably black people also, but the thing is that we are not going to MAGA like it's the 1950s. You have to move one, fucktard."
Clearly you can't read and have no sense or memory of history. All you can do is name call using tired, over used tropes of "hate" and "racism". Hillary said "All women must be heard!" AFTER she spent a lifetime attacking Bill's sexual abuse victims as if they were porn stars angling current politics to make a buck. It's not the 1960s Marxist revolution, even if your "brown shirt" AntiFa, disguised in Black shirts, think it is, You should be moving on.