They are not lying, just looking for data to support their pre-determined conclusion. The same as you are. Please try to avoid such partisan vitriol on such an important topic. How about calm down, admit there is a problem, your opponents have some valid points, but we don't have all the answers.
Yes, semantics, but I found the words misleading in the context. GP implied people no longer had guns, but we actually have more guns than ever in Australia, millions of them in fact. Just far fewer semi-autos than before. Hunting is popular.
I am not defending the buyback. We already had sensible gun laws, and it mostly replaced a lot of semi-auto.22s with manual-loading ones. At massive cost to the taxpayer. We never had a gun culture in Australia, and never had a big problem with gun violence. So I'm sick of Americans trying to use Australia as an example, good or bad, of gun control.
It's not so long ago that police started routinely carrying handguns here. It happened after a spate of armed bank robberies. Armed robberies since declined, but we are stuck with the armed police now. (Or course they always had guns for emergency, just not carried routinely).
in Australia after their firearm ban and confiscation, removing firearms does not remove suicides.
There was no "firearm" ban, but a restriction and buyback of rapid-fire weapons. Of course many people used the money to buy new legal weapons. A bolt-action rifle or standard shotgun is not so good for massacres, but perfectly effective for hunting or suicide. There is no reason to expect a decline.
those determined to exit this sphere of existence will find a way to do so.
Ok, too hard to RTFA, but at least RTFS. It is not about those who are sufficiently determined to find a way.
The latter comes with regular, mandatory police inspections of gun owners' homes, to ensure guns are kept according to the rules.
Reg is not at all necessary. We have lots of rules for home safety without inspection, except when a home is first built. Perhaps when someone gets a gun licence it could require proof that they have secure storage. After that, education and publicising prosecutions (e.g. kids or burglar finding gun) might be enough to make a big difference.
Well, it turns out that the protesters were 100% right on that one.
But if it makes you feel any better, much as the world loathes Bush II and the neo-con war criminals, they still won't have much trouble beating Vladimir Putin in a global popularity contest. Maybe people don't protest against Russia because there is no point?
Or is it that invading a distant nation for its oil wealth is not quite the same as a bloodless annexation of a peninsula that was recently part of Russia and is still full of Russians. Khrushchev should never have given it to Ukraine.
They don't have to convince anybody with such accusations. They just need to make enough noise to make the perfectly credible accusations against them look similarly lunatic to the short attention-span majority of the world's population...
Thats partly right, but overstated. I'd say they merely need to cast doubt - no need to make both cases equally (in)credible. And more importantly, the propaganda is intended for domestic consumption, not "the world".
Why? Was it less important than the Air France plane that was found after almost 2 years of searching?
The AF447 debris was spotted the next day, and bodies and wreckage recovered within a week. It took 2 years to find the black boxes, but they had useful data on the cause of the crash. The Malaysian black boxes are almost certainly of no use.
Anyway, you are making a big assumption that the GP thinks the AF blackbox search was worthwhile.
Actually offshore wind is cheaper than diesel. Diesel internal combustion generators is just about the most expensive way to produce electricity, by a long shot.
Not on a small off-grid community. I think you'll find offshore wind farms cost millions, while you can buy a diesel for $1000. Stop making irrelevant comparisons that ignore scale. A diesel generator on the grid is as silly as an offshore wind-farm for a small isolated community. Nobody is replacing diesels with wind, though they might experiment with supplementing it.
My point was that this project is funded by selling power to the grid, and selling it to the island is just a PR point.
I think you'll find that most "eco-friendly" headlines...
Nothing to do with "eco". Most headlines are BS. Yes, they are selling it to the locals as cheap power, to try and avoid NIMBY-ism.
Real economics is harder to sell. Coal power should have massive taxes to cover externalities - the health and greenhouse effects of emissions. If they had to pay a fair price for all the garbage they dump into the atmosphere, alternatives like wind and nuclear would start looking very affordable.
Headline is misleading. It is not the turbines, but the link to the national grid that is making power cheaper for the island. Until now, they depended on small local diesel generators.
You can bet that the 30MW wind plant is a lot more expensive than the diesel generators were. I'd be interested to know the economics of the plant, but supplying cheaper power to the island will be an utterly trivial component.
Well, there *will* be a undeniable argument for "intelligent design" behind their creation... Somehow, I don't think it will mean the same thing though..
It will be argued.
"intelligent!? Will you look at these race conditions? I was clearly designed by an idiot."
Who reads TFA? But the answer is in TFS: "just 875 million years after the big bang". "how far away" and "how long ago" are the same thing in astronomy.
Are you denser than a 12 billion solar mass black hole?
Actually, he is. Unlike regular black holes resulting from supernova collapse, a super-massive black hole is not very dense. e.g. a one-billion solar-mass (2x10 to 39kg) hole would give a density of 200kg/m3 - less than that of cork!
where the breastfeeding percentage is nearly 100% (I assume you are talking about Africa or somewhere here)
Where did you get that Idea? 100 years ago? Africa actually has quite a low rate of breastfeeding now, with some exceptions like Malawi. Numbers depend on the age, and whether you mean exclusive.
I guess that makes us one vertex of the Anti-Bermuda-Triangle. Its a wonder more planes haven't gone missing. But we do still have some bits of your Skylab that crashed here. Coincidence?
Two of the DGSE killers were caught and imprisoned in New Zealand, but the French government threatened crippling EU trade sanctions if they were not released.
U-235 has a much shorter half-life, hence a much higher radioactivity.
Not really. It is still 700 million years for U235. A few times almost no radiation is still almost nothing. A few kilos of uranium would be no worse than sleeping over a pile of bananas.
Its things like radium and plutonium, that are orders of magnitude more unstable, where you need to start considering the hazard.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Doxing (from dox, abbreviation of documents),[1] or doxxing,[2][3] is the Internet-based practice of researching and broadcasting personally identifiable information about an individual.[3][4][5][6] The methods employed to acquire this information include searching publicly available databases and social media websites (like Facebook), hacking, and social engineering. It is closely related to cyber-vigilantism, hacktivism and cyber-bullying.
Doxing may be carried out to aid law enforcement, business analysis, extortion, coercion, harassment, public shaming and other forms of vigilante justice.[7][8]
How is this remotely of any interest to science, or the slashdot community? Does it overturn some previous hypothesis that twin births are a recent phenomenon?
The researcher estimates the woman was in her early twenties when she went into labor. She likely didn’t know she was having twins.
No shit! Was the village ultrasound machine broken? How does this pointless crap make it to the front page of slashdot?
Slashdot Mirror
They are not lying, just looking for data to support their pre-determined conclusion. The same as you are. Please try to avoid such partisan vitriol on such an important topic. How about calm down, admit there is a problem, your opponents have some valid points, but we don't have all the answers.
Here is a good example of a sensible moderate view:
http://people.howstuffworks.co...
Yes, semantics, but I found the words misleading in the context.
GP implied people no longer had guns, but we actually have more guns than ever in Australia, millions of them in fact. Just far fewer semi-autos than before. Hunting is popular.
I am not defending the buyback. We already had sensible gun laws, and it mostly replaced a lot of semi-auto .22s with manual-loading ones. At massive cost to the taxpayer. We never had a gun culture in Australia, and never had a big problem with gun violence. So I'm sick of Americans trying to use Australia as an example, good or bad, of gun control.
It's not so long ago that police started routinely carrying handguns here. It happened after a spate of armed bank robberies. Armed robberies since declined, but we are stuck with the armed police now. (Or course they always had guns for emergency, just not carried routinely).
in Australia after their firearm ban and confiscation, removing firearms does not remove suicides.
There was no "firearm" ban, but a restriction and buyback of rapid-fire weapons. Of course many people used the money to buy new legal weapons.
A bolt-action rifle or standard shotgun is not so good for massacres, but perfectly effective for hunting or suicide. There is no reason to expect a decline.
those determined to exit this sphere of existence will find a way to do so.
Ok, too hard to RTFA, but at least RTFS. It is not about those who are sufficiently determined to find a way.
The latter comes with regular, mandatory police inspections of gun owners' homes, to ensure guns are kept according to the rules.
Reg is not at all necessary. We have lots of rules for home safety without inspection, except when a home is first built. Perhaps when someone gets a gun licence it could require proof that they have secure storage. After that, education and publicising prosecutions (e.g. kids or burglar finding gun) might be enough to make a big difference.
The canine olfactory organ is thousands of orders of magnitude
Something tells me you're an arts graduate :)
Compare, for example, the world's reaction to US invading Iraq in 2003 — it caused, what Time magazine would later call "World's biggest coordinated protest in history"
Well, it turns out that the protesters were 100% right on that one.
But if it makes you feel any better, much as the world loathes Bush II and the neo-con war criminals, they still won't have much trouble beating Vladimir Putin in a global popularity contest. Maybe people don't protest against Russia because there is no point?
Or is it that invading a distant nation for its oil wealth is not quite the same as a bloodless annexation of a peninsula that was recently part of Russia and is still full of Russians. Khrushchev should never have given it to Ukraine.
They don't have to convince anybody with such accusations. They just need to make enough noise to make the perfectly credible accusations against them look similarly lunatic to the short attention-span majority of the world's population...
Thats partly right, but overstated. I'd say they merely need to cast doubt - no need to make both cases equally (in)credible.
And more importantly, the propaganda is intended for domestic consumption, not "the world".
Why? Was it less important than the Air France plane that was found after almost 2 years of searching?
The AF447 debris was spotted the next day, and bodies and wreckage recovered within a week. It took 2 years to find the black boxes, but they had useful data on the cause of the crash. The Malaysian black boxes are almost certainly of no use.
Anyway, you are making a big assumption that the GP thinks the AF blackbox search was worthwhile.
They only need to convince people who already made the very uneconomical decision to buy an electric or hybrid.
Again? Your sound like a broken record. Anyway, buying _any_ new car is uneconomical, so you are left with no point whatsoever.
It is the same Indians that are mass-protesting in response to rapes,
And the same Indians who form lynch mobs, breaking the accused out of prison and dragging them down the street to their death?
http://www.smh.com.au/world/wo...
Although, that only seems to happen to racial minorities in Northern India.
Actually offshore wind is cheaper than diesel. Diesel internal combustion generators is just about the most expensive way to produce electricity, by a long shot.
Not on a small off-grid community. I think you'll find offshore wind farms cost millions, while you can buy a diesel for $1000. Stop making irrelevant comparisons that ignore scale. A diesel generator on the grid is as silly as an offshore wind-farm for a small isolated community. Nobody is replacing diesels with wind, though they might experiment with supplementing it.
My point was that this project is funded by selling power to the grid, and selling it to the island is just a PR point.
I think you'll find that most "eco-friendly" headlines ...
Nothing to do with "eco". Most headlines are BS. Yes, they are selling it to the locals as cheap power, to try and avoid NIMBY-ism.
Real economics is harder to sell. Coal power should have massive taxes to cover externalities - the health and greenhouse effects of emissions. If they had to pay a fair price for all the garbage they dump into the atmosphere, alternatives like wind and nuclear would start looking very affordable.
Headline is misleading. It is not the turbines, but the link to the national grid that is making power cheaper for the island.
Until now, they depended on small local diesel generators.
You can bet that the 30MW wind plant is a lot more expensive than the diesel generators were.
I'd be interested to know the economics of the plant, but supplying cheaper power to the island will be an utterly trivial component.
Well, there *will* be a undeniable argument for "intelligent design" behind their creation... Somehow, I don't think it will mean the same thing though..
It will be argued.
"intelligent!? Will you look at these race conditions? I was clearly designed by an idiot."
Who reads TFA? But the answer is in TFS: "just 875 million years after the big bang".
"how far away" and "how long ago" are the same thing in astronomy.
Are you denser than a 12 billion solar mass black hole?
Actually, he is. Unlike regular black holes resulting from supernova collapse, a super-massive black hole is not very dense.
e.g. a one-billion solar-mass (2x10 to 39kg) hole would give a density of 200kg/m3 - less than that of cork!
http://physics.stackexchange.c...
Some have proposed that we may living inside an even bigger black hole.
How did this get past the editors?
Here are 7 ways to get clickbait past the editors
Sounds as useful as a solar-powered flashlight.
where the breastfeeding percentage is nearly 100% (I assume you are talking about Africa or somewhere here)
Where did you get that Idea? 100 years ago? Africa actually has quite a low rate of breastfeeding now, with some exceptions like Malawi.
Numbers depend on the age, and whether you mean exclusive.
I guess that makes us one vertex of the Anti-Bermuda-Triangle. Its a wonder more planes haven't gone missing.
But we do still have some bits of your Skylab that crashed here. Coincidence?
You mean sophisticated malware in the hands of a known terrorist organisation?
Two of the DGSE killers were caught and imprisoned in New Zealand, but the French government threatened crippling EU trade sanctions if they were not released.
U-235 has a much shorter half-life, hence a much higher radioactivity.
Not really. It is still 700 million years for U235. A few times almost no radiation is still almost nothing.
A few kilos of uranium would be no worse than sleeping over a pile of bananas.
Its things like radium and plutonium, that are orders of magnitude more unstable, where you need to start considering the hazard.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Doxing (from dox, abbreviation of documents),[1] or doxxing,[2][3] is the Internet-based practice of researching and broadcasting personally identifiable information about an individual.[3][4][5][6] The methods employed to acquire this information include searching publicly available databases and social media websites (like Facebook), hacking, and social engineering. It is closely related to cyber-vigilantism, hacktivism and cyber-bullying.
Doxing may be carried out to aid law enforcement, business analysis, extortion, coercion, harassment, public shaming and other forms of vigilante justice.[7][8]
How is this remotely of any interest to science, or the slashdot community?
Does it overturn some previous hypothesis that twin births are a recent phenomenon?
The researcher estimates the woman was in her early twenties when she went into labor. She likely didn’t know she was having twins.
No shit! Was the village ultrasound machine broken?
How does this pointless crap make it to the front page of slashdot?
the real problem is that they are simply assholes.
I'm just on the arsehole spectrum, you insensitive clod.