Compute the cost of the cable and hardware needed to reach a farm twenty miles out from a town. Add the labor and construction, then divide the total by monthly rate.
We're gonna *rape* it. Cause next year's topsoil doesn't effect this quarter's profits so it's not material.
Yes, such a clear and neutral statement. Perhaps you might take a look at organic farming practices before you claim who's worse. Organic farming is much more culpable for CO2 emissions.
If you have a model that predicts the sun will not rise tomorrow and also says that it didn't rise on more than zero occasions in the past, your model is bogus. That is the state of climate models right now.
Did you even read the link? In it, the findings indicate that cirrus clouds behave in the opposite manner as they are modeled. Now, I would expect some changes and so do they:
"To give an idea of how strong this enhanced cooling mechanism is, if it was operating on global warming, it would reduce estimates of future warming by over 75 percent,"
Wow, 75%. Not trivial. Oh yeah. These aren't "opinions" these are measurements. Argue that one away.
As for out of his field of expertise, the article interviews Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist in UAHuntsville's Earth System Science Center. Not exactly a guy with no understanding of, you know, climate.
Me? I'll take his advice: "I know some climate modelers will say that these results are interesting but that they probably don't apply to long-term global warming, but this represents a fundamental natural cooling process in the atmosphere. Let's see if climate models can get this part right before we rely on their long term projections."
Do you realize what the impact is? No. No one does. Not even 'climatologists'. They have a vested interest in being worried. Being calm and unruffled does not generate funding.
"... what's more important to society, making the life of a criminal miserable, or making sure that when they're released they don't make anybody else's life miserable?"
Show me how that can be done and I'll agree with it. Since rehabilitation is mostly a pipedream, I don't.
No, you're wrong. I've just read the pdf. Those are the proposed sections, not current law. The bill doesn't go deeper. If you think it does, please either cut and paste the section you mean or at least point out which it is.
An openly displayed license plate is not private. It's a broadcast and a legally required one.
Uh, no. There was no implication of that sort. Airlines, train and bus systems all monitor you. Good thing too, else you'd show at the station when the junket was cancelled because they couldn't call you. Would you have those systems dismantled because someone might abuse them?
It's clearly not beyond the pale. You think it is, as is your right. But you decry your agenda with your italicized words because another conceivable purpose is the 111 felons and 95 stolen cars found.
Oh, horseshit. You've watched Minority Report one too many times.
It takes time to do those things and people to see it's done even with a friggin' Cray. Orwell had an interesting vision, but it's not logistically possible.
Uh, yes. That is emperical fact. They were in his car and he left them unattended.
"... where should he have stored them?"
No. '... why would he have taken them?'
Interns aren't tabula rasa, they're just inexperienced. What background did he have? Any IT schooling? If so, he was aware of what he was doing. All the persons in the chain of command are guilty, even the peons.
As a 30+ year consultant, I've banged my head numerous times against stupid 'security'. Many times, I simply refused to follow their procedures. Let some company goon do the stupid thing. I'm paid to be an analyst and if I spot a problem and report it, I'm certainly not going to follow procedures I myself have labeled as bad.
The consultant is the primary blame and the intern a very far second. Just because a company has bad procedures doesn't mean you follow them.
Not according to your own logic. All they have to do is abide within the gambling laws and make sure no one scams their way out of the taxes on winnings. This would put them on equal footing.
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Compute the cost of the cable and hardware needed to reach a farm twenty miles out from a town. Add the labor and construction, then divide the total by monthly rate.
We're gonna *rape* it. Cause next year's topsoil doesn't effect this quarter's profits so it's not material.
Yes, such a clear and neutral statement. Perhaps you might take a look at organic farming practices before you claim who's worse. Organic farming is much more culpable for CO2 emissions.
If you have a model that predicts the sun will not rise tomorrow and also says that it didn't rise on more than zero occasions in the past, your model is bogus. That is the state of climate models right now.
Did you even read the link? In it, the findings indicate that cirrus clouds behave in the opposite manner as they are modeled. Now, I would expect some changes and so do they:
"To give an idea of how strong this enhanced cooling mechanism is, if it was operating on global warming, it would reduce estimates of future warming by over 75 percent,"
Wow, 75%. Not trivial. Oh yeah. These aren't "opinions" these are measurements. Argue that one away.
As for out of his field of expertise, the article interviews Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist in UAHuntsville's Earth System Science Center. Not exactly a guy with no understanding of, you know, climate.
Me? I'll take his advice: "I know some climate modelers will say that these results are interesting but that they probably don't apply to long-term global warming, but this represents a fundamental natural cooling process in the atmosphere. Let's see if climate models can get this part right before we rely on their long term projections."
As others have said, your analogy sucks. That and it's you that doesn't understand the difference.
Webster's
meteorology
1. the science dealing with the atmosphere and its phenomena, including weather and climate.
climatology
1. the science that deals with the phenomena of climates or climatic conditions.
A climatologist deals with a subset of the concerns of the meteorologist.
... but they're still getting worse.
No, they're getting a little warmer. Warmer != worse.
Do you realize what the impact is? No. No one does. Not even 'climatologists'. They have a vested interest in being worried. Being calm and unruffled does not generate funding.
Nice bald statement. Perhaps you could instead point out the section so forty thousand people don't have to search.
No they haven't. Neither has a chimp. Provide a cite.
"... what's more important to society, making the life of a criminal miserable, or making sure that when they're released they don't make anybody else's life miserable?"
Show me how that can be done and I'll agree with it. Since rehabilitation is mostly a pipedream, I don't.
"The purpose of punishment is not to exact vengeance -- it is to deter crimes and to comfort the victims."
Baloney. The purpose of punishment is punishment. Nothing, not a damn thing, deters crime.
If she is, you might keep in mind that goblins aren't good people.
Oh fuckin' please. You'd be more convincing if your skreed contained a modicum of thought instead of simply OMG THE US IS A FASCIST STATE.
You'd let attempted murderers go, I presume?
Don't see it. Explain how please.
No, you're wrong. I've just read the pdf. Those are the proposed sections, not current law. The bill doesn't go deeper. If you think it does, please either cut and paste the section you mean or at least point out which it is.
"Sorry to bother you Mr. Jones but we see you deviated from your usual route. Care to explain?"
They would do this why? Please make an attempt to stay within legal framework.
There's a lot of tinfoil being used in that one little fantasy quote.
An openly displayed license plate is not private. It's a broadcast and a legally required one.
Uh, no. There was no implication of that sort. Airlines, train and bus systems all monitor you. Good thing too, else you'd show at the station when the junket was cancelled because they couldn't call you. Would you have those systems dismantled because someone might abuse them?
It's clearly not beyond the pale. You think it is, as is your right. But you decry your agenda with your italicized words because another conceivable purpose is the 111 felons and 95 stolen cars found.
Oh, horseshit. You've watched Minority Report one too many times.
It takes time to do those things and people to see it's done even with a friggin' Cray. Orwell had an interesting vision, but it's not logistically possible.
So does Lotus and Corel, both of which are used by business. People here think it's open or M$.
Which scratches.
Please... It's a government agency being criticized on /.
"But did he really lose them?"
Uh, yes. That is emperical fact. They were in his car and he left them unattended.
"... where should he have stored them?"
No. '... why would he have taken them?'
Interns aren't tabula rasa, they're just inexperienced. What background did he have? Any IT schooling? If so, he was aware of what he was doing. All the persons in the chain of command are guilty, even the peons.
Very much in agreement with you.
As a 30+ year consultant, I've banged my head numerous times against stupid 'security'. Many times, I simply refused to follow their procedures. Let some company goon do the stupid thing. I'm paid to be an analyst and if I spot a problem and report it, I'm certainly not going to follow procedures I myself have labeled as bad.
The consultant is the primary blame and the intern a very far second. Just because a company has bad procedures doesn't mean you follow them.
"...and the existing gambling establishment."
Not according to your own logic. All they have to do is abide within the gambling laws and make sure no one scams their way out of the taxes on winnings. This would put them on equal footing.
That is not true.