1) No, that's not true. We have data extending back millions of years, although its quality does decrease with age. 2) Oh good, their models will become more accurate. Where's your model? 3) No, it is certainly a part of the discussion. The 3-day halt in air-traffic post 9/11 showed a spike in temperatures, revealing the fact that jet contrails are probably hiding some of the warming. 4) We are already in the part of the Milankovitch cycle where the glaciers should be returning. 5) This is a wonderfully ignorant statement that ignores feedback cycles in the biosphere and geological sources of CO2. 6) Yes, but at what timescale? Will the plants we happen to eat have the same nutritive value? What ecological shifts will occur? 7) Historically? So there were historians writing down what happened during the Pennsylvanian period 300 million years ago? Also, the "not true of oil" statement reveals you to be one of those morons that believes in an unlimited supply of abiogenic oil. Good luck with that. 8) So what? That occurred with a different configuration of continents and a different orbit around the sun. 9) So what? This argument confuses weather with climate. It looks like the Northwest Passage will be permanently open during the summer. 10) The Kardashians get far more clicks. It's actually very hard to get fat, lazy Americans interested in the planet they're destroying. 11) Move to Texas, then see how much you like the summers.
The "we can't predict weather with any accuracy and predicting climate is going to be even harder" argument is the crappiest of crappy arguments. Consider a toss of a fair coin. Toss it once and I have a 50% chance of calling it incorrectly. Toss it 1000 times and my guess that it came up heads 50% of the time will come quite close to the actual percentage of heads.
The whole purpose of metering is to track usage of power whose price varies with time. One could thus install an energy storage device such as a flywheel that stores energy during cheap times and releases energy during expensive times. The client would by necessity need to track their own energy usage to make such a system work using a monitoring device downstream from the storage device which would itself be downstream from the utility company's monitoring device. The storage device could thus be used to smooth out energy drawn from the energy company. During cheap times, the storage device would store extra energy during periods of low load (when viewing the "dark" moments of a movie, for example). During expensive times, the storage device would release extra energy during periods of high load, e.g. when viewing the bright moments of a movie. The client benefits by having privacy, by having a backup power supply in case of outages, and by switching to lower cost power. The power company benefits by needing to supply less power at times of peak demand, and by having a more balanced load overall.
"Palestinians are not fighting for survival; they are fighting for the destruction of Israel. -jklovanc"
Oh really? So you interviewed every single Palestinian, and each and every single one candidly admitted to you that they are fighting for the destruction of Israel, even those that live peacefully within Israel or are even married to Jews? That seems unlikely to me.
What does seem likely is that you have let the actions and statements of a minority color your view of an entire group of people in a way that further augments your preconceived notions and ideology,
You're referring to rather shallow water. At greater pressures it chemically binds with the rock and lowers the rock's melting temperature. The rock itself than becomes the lubricant.
How can one conditionally attach a file based on the relative receptivity of the recipient, especially with multiple, unknown recipients? I think it's an erroneous statement. It should read "I've attached the video whether you want to watch it or not."
"Because wireless carriers regularly generate and retain the records at issue, and because these records provide only a very general indication of a user's whereabouts at certain times in the past, the requested cell-site records do not implicate a Fourth Amendment privacy interest," and thus the cell-site records of Federal agents should be available upon request. Start filing your FOIA papers right away.
It seems like a tremendous waste of resources to provide everyone with a broadband connection and then cap them at a megabit. A lot of people could probably reach the cap within, well, a second. A few intrepid soles might switch back to reading email with Pine to stretch their megabit out. After losing millions of sales because everyone uses text-based web browsers for a day before going internet-dark, IKEA will underwrite a more reasonable broadband solution that provides a megabit PER SECOND.
Not just time and space, but you have to arrive with the right velocity, orientation, and spin. If you landed in the future in a DeLorean spinning at 380 rpm on its top and traveling at 483 mph with respect to the local terrain, you might not survive to make your next movie.
This theory was stimulated by research suggesting the information about a collapsed star is stored in quantum fluctuations of the black hole's horizon. However, when applied to the universe as a whole, to quote the NewScientist article: "the cosmos has a horizon too - the boundary from beyond which light has not had time to reach us in the 13.7-billion-year lifespan of the universe." I had some questions resulting from my own dim understanding of black holes and having read only the NewScientist article, not the published paper.
Matter that falls into a black hole, from the perspective of a faraway observer at rest w/ respect to the black hole, appears to slow down and the light reflected becomes redshifted - the object appears to be almost frozen in time just before the redshifting becomes so great that the object becomes invisible. The object never appears to actually go in but is stuck forever at the event horizon. This suggests to me that information about infalling matter is also stored in the black hole's horizon. So what I'd like to know - is the surface area of all the black holes within the visible universe included in their calculations along with the surface area of the visible universe? If not, are even black holes simply holograms of the visible universe's surface area, thus making the information encoded in the black hole horizons redundant? Would including the black hole surface area significantly change the expected frequency of the holographic noise?
No. The magnetic field is actually stronger near the poles than at the equator, so describing the poles as holes just doesn't cut it. It's the direction of the magnetic field that's important.
Exposing those mounds to UV light mutates the surface bacteria so badly that they can't reproduce, but you've still got millions upon millions living beneath that one layer in ignorant bliss because their brethren above them absorbed all the UV radiation, sparing them.
Nice try. If this was true then the mound couldn't grow because the bacteria on the edge are only one cell deep.
... that there are actually active areas for them to see next April during their 8 minutes of telescope activity. This solar minimum has been very quiet and long-lasting.
I upgraded to FireFox 3 and it broke the AVG addon (I have the free version, not sure if the pay version would break or not). Considering the behavior of the AVG addon, I'm glad its broken, and am thinking of migrating to a different AV product.
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1) No, that's not true. We have data extending back millions of years, although its quality does decrease with age.
2) Oh good, their models will become more accurate. Where's your model?
3) No, it is certainly a part of the discussion. The 3-day halt in air-traffic post 9/11 showed a spike in temperatures, revealing the fact that jet contrails are probably hiding some of the warming.
4) We are already in the part of the Milankovitch cycle where the glaciers should be returning.
5) This is a wonderfully ignorant statement that ignores feedback cycles in the biosphere and geological sources of CO2.
6) Yes, but at what timescale? Will the plants we happen to eat have the same nutritive value? What ecological shifts will occur?
7) Historically? So there were historians writing down what happened during the Pennsylvanian period 300 million years ago? Also, the "not true of oil" statement reveals you to be one of those morons that believes in an unlimited supply of abiogenic oil. Good luck with that.
8) So what? That occurred with a different configuration of continents and a different orbit around the sun.
9) So what? This argument confuses weather with climate. It looks like the Northwest Passage will be permanently open during the summer.
10) The Kardashians get far more clicks. It's actually very hard to get fat, lazy Americans interested in the planet they're destroying.
11) Move to Texas, then see how much you like the summers.
The "we can't predict weather with any accuracy and predicting climate is going to be even harder" argument is the crappiest of crappy arguments. Consider a toss of a fair coin. Toss it once and I have a 50% chance of calling it incorrectly. Toss it 1000 times and my guess that it came up heads 50% of the time will come quite close to the actual percentage of heads.
The whole purpose of metering is to track usage of power whose price varies with time. One could thus install an energy storage device such as a flywheel that stores energy during cheap times and releases energy during expensive times. The client would by necessity need to track their own energy usage to make such a system work using a monitoring device downstream from the storage device which would itself be downstream from the utility company's monitoring device. The storage device could thus be used to smooth out energy drawn from the energy company. During cheap times, the storage device would store extra energy during periods of low load (when viewing the "dark" moments of a movie, for example). During expensive times, the storage device would release extra energy during periods of high load, e.g. when viewing the bright moments of a movie. The client benefits by having privacy, by having a backup power supply in case of outages, and by switching to lower cost power. The power company benefits by needing to supply less power at times of peak demand, and by having a more balanced load overall.
"Palestinians are not fighting for survival; they are fighting for the destruction of Israel. -jklovanc" Oh really? So you interviewed every single Palestinian, and each and every single one candidly admitted to you that they are fighting for the destruction of Israel, even those that live peacefully within Israel or are even married to Jews? That seems unlikely to me. What does seem likely is that you have let the actions and statements of a minority color your view of an entire group of people in a way that further augments your preconceived notions and ideology,
Bad news on that front. Global warming is causing the atmosphere to collapse.
Obscure? I'm going to have to ask you to leave your nerd card at the door when you leave.
You're referring to rather shallow water. At greater pressures it chemically binds with the rock and lowers the rock's melting temperature. The rock itself than becomes the lubricant.
How can one conditionally attach a file based on the relative receptivity of the recipient, especially with multiple, unknown recipients? I think it's an erroneous statement. It should read "I've attached the video whether you want to watch it or not."
And a lot of what you do isn't worth any points at all.
"Because wireless carriers regularly generate and retain the records at issue, and because these records provide only a very general indication of a user's whereabouts at certain times in the past, the requested cell-site records do not implicate a Fourth Amendment privacy interest," and thus the cell-site records of Federal agents should be available upon request. Start filing your FOIA papers right away.
The Borealis program at Montana State University has been doing this since 2001. http://spacegrant.montana.edu/borealis/
Soles? I bet you didn't know shoes could surf the internet.
It seems like a tremendous waste of resources to provide everyone with a broadband connection and then cap them at a megabit. A lot of people could probably reach the cap within, well, a second. A few intrepid soles might switch back to reading email with Pine to stretch their megabit out. After losing millions of sales because everyone uses text-based web browsers for a day before going internet-dark, IKEA will underwrite a more reasonable broadband solution that provides a megabit PER SECOND.
Where's the bullshit tag?
Everyone? Since not all bare asses are white, I presume you're going to have to paint those that aren't.
Not just time and space, but you have to arrive with the right velocity, orientation, and spin. If you landed in the future in a DeLorean spinning at 380 rpm on its top and traveling at 483 mph with respect to the local terrain, you might not survive to make your next movie.
This theory was stimulated by research suggesting the information about a collapsed star is stored in quantum fluctuations of the black hole's horizon. However, when applied to the universe as a whole, to quote the NewScientist article: "the cosmos has a horizon too - the boundary from beyond which light has not had time to reach us in the 13.7-billion-year lifespan of the universe." I had some questions resulting from my own dim understanding of black holes and having read only the NewScientist article, not the published paper.
Matter that falls into a black hole, from the perspective of a faraway observer at rest w/ respect to the black hole, appears to slow down and the light reflected becomes redshifted - the object appears to be almost frozen in time just before the redshifting becomes so great that the object becomes invisible. The object never appears to actually go in but is stuck forever at the event horizon. This suggests to me that information about infalling matter is also stored in the black hole's horizon. So what I'd like to know - is the surface area of all the black holes within the visible universe included in their calculations along with the surface area of the visible universe? If not, are even black holes simply holograms of the visible universe's surface area, thus making the information encoded in the black hole horizons redundant? Would including the black hole surface area significantly change the expected frequency of the holographic noise?
err... make that badsummary tag.
.. the bad summary tag?
No. The magnetic field is actually stronger near the poles than at the equator, so describing the poles as holes just doesn't cut it. It's the direction of the magnetic field that's important.
... that there are actually active areas for them to see next April during their 8 minutes of telescope activity. This solar minimum has been very quiet and long-lasting.
They didn't say that this time, so why did you mention it? And it's not a very expensive probe either.
There is no conflict between the two dates. Aug 9 is an injector test and Sep 10 is when they test the main ring.
I upgraded to FireFox 3 and it broke the AVG addon (I have the free version, not sure if the pay version would break or not). Considering the behavior of the AVG addon, I'm glad its broken, and am thinking of migrating to a different AV product.