Hate to tag onto an AC, but they raise a good point. See also the rise of "roundup-ready" soy crops in Argentina in recent years. Monanto up to their usual tricks. I don't have an online link but it's in Global Development of Organic Agriculture: Challenges and Prospects. Knudsen et al 2006
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Life of water vapour in the atmosphere is a few days (it condenses as RAIN) Life of methane in the atmosphere is a couple of years (it degrades into CO2) Life of CO2 in the atmosphere is a very long time,, under current global conditions.
So carbon is rightly "vilified" because it has a much longer cycle than other "greenhouse" gases. Sorry, it's not a massive conspiracy, it's just high-school science.
But the Aussies are charged between 50c and $1 per gig, so it's hardly "unlimited." Over here, Telstra are still selling "broadband" plans with a 200MB per month cap! That's not even enough to check email and keep windows and your virus software up to date.
Not exactly sure how this relates to CO2 production though.
Yes, the Earth's climate changes. No, it has NEVER changed so rapidly. Ice ages happen over tens of thousands of years, anthropogenic climate change is taking place in a couple of hundred. Orders of magnitude, people.
A picaxe *is* a popular Microchip PIC, running a nifty bootstrap program developed by Revolution Education in the UK. It's intended to make microcontroller accessible to everyone, using a 3-wire in-circuit programming system so schools don't have to pay for a programmer, and so that kids can't break said programmer.
The development environment uses an intuitive BASIC compiler so people with no programming experience (pre-teen kids, or just biology graduates like myself) can be writing working programs in hours.
The IDE is free-as-in-beer and the picaxe chips are cheap (under five bucks for the smaller ones) and widely available.
Yes this is a plug, I'm not affiliated with Revolution Education but I probably wouldn't have had the stamina to get into microcontrollers without them.
Who modded this flamebait? Australia DOES have bloody awful internet service, compared to the rest of the Western world. SLow speeds, download limits, not to mention the proposed filtering that has received so much press. In fact, right now, I'm browsing slashdot of dialup. Remember dialup? I have recently upgraded from my previous data plan which involved kangaroos with pouches full of punched cards and other cliches.
I'm not passed out drunk though, which nobody laments more than myself.
There's a system being deployed in Australia called Combined Heat And Power (CHAPS), that uses curved mirrors to focus the sun onto what is essentially a pipe covered in photovoltaic cells. The PVs convert some of the energy into electricity and are cooled by water flowing thru the pipe, which then feeds the hot-water system of the building they're mounted on. Total claimed efficiency is up to 60%. The system is currently installed ont he roof of one wing of Bruce Hall, a residential college at the ANU.
There's an AC buried somewhere above who makes this point too: an UNMANNED transfer. Send the ISS slow as you like, minimising fuel consumption and mechanical stress on the structure, to its future destination, then later, think about putting people on it. Even if it turns out that the station has become uninhabitable, at least now you have several tons of spare parts up out of the gravity well, and much faster to be retrieved should future astronauts need it.
You can buy a car and do whatever you want with it, but this will void the warranty and the manufacturer will not support you if it breaks down.
You can sell the car, but NO WAY are you allowed to copy the car and sell those copies. Say if you own a car factory, you're not allowed to buy one Ford F100, then reverse-engineer it and sell identical copies as Ford F100s. Nor are you allowed to change, say, the colour of the upholstery, then sell the whole thing as your own work. No way. It's not just the electronic media that has these restrictions.
PET plastic is PET plastic. Who cares if it's been melted down and then re-cast?
Anyway, that's why they're not turning the recycled bottle into FOOD-GRADE products. I'd prefer to have a phone made of "questionable" plastics than a drink bottle. Are you going to eat the phone? Still better to eat this offering from Samsung than a different model made from nice, "fresh" brominated flame retardants.
Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Deputy Leader Of The Government In The Senate, minister@dbcde.gov.au Tel: 03 9650 1188 Fax: 03 9650 3251
Are these the same as the signature pads in department stores? Because I always sign those with something stupid like "Hugh G. Rection" and have never had a problem. I have never made an issue of this at the store, or tried to get products for free, it's just my way of introducing random noise into their databases...
In the last ten years my country has gone to shit. We have the slowest, most expensive internet in the Western world (and they want to fuck it up even more by censoring it), the most expensive beer in the Western world, and our justice system seems more broken by the day.
Australia was a Good Idea but we really seem to have lost our direction recently. Lots of sunshine and nice beaches though, and the wildlife is neat. Come and see the animals soon because we are hell-bent on killing what's left of those through unsusainable farming, land clearing, salinity, and feral foreign plants and animals.
Or at least eat the animals that are native to your area. Here in Australia we have no native hoofed animals, so big heavy beasts like cattle destroy our geologically ancient, fragile soils, and our plants that aren't adapted to the grazing habits of cattle.
Kangaroos however, taste like beef, are drought-tolerant, don't render land unusable after a couple of generations and also emit a fraction of the methane that big ruminants like cattle do.
Couldn't find the parent to reply too... and I have to disagree with it. The reason for McDonalds' success is that you can go into a franchise ANYWHERE in the world and get exactly the same food as you would at home. All over Europe I have found the staff at least competent in English, but usually much more competent than their counterparts in the US and UK. It's a bit embarrassing, but foreigners tend to speak English better than we do.
Having a concealed weapon, in any way, unless visibly identified as someone authorised to do so, should allow police leniancy for opening fire on you sooner. A gun in your hand is all they should need to empty their clip at you.
Um, if a weapon is concealed, how does the cop know it is there when he decides to shoot you? And how is a concealed weapon related to "a gun in your hand"?
I'm not a lawyer, is there a legal definition of these two terms I'm not aware of?
I like my backwards _country_ for this reason. All the votes nationwide are on paper. Disabled voters can cast a postal vote. And voting is compulsory, so even if we can't get the best candidate _in_ we can usually keep the worst candidate _out_. And while compulsory, it is still a secret ballot. You can cast a blank piece of paper if you are that upset by the system.
(of course the system isn't perfect, which is why it took so very many, many years to get rid of our previous Prime Minister.)
Thus resulting in an increase in undesirables over 40, and female "terrorists." I still find it hard to believe that anyone in the usa is any safer because of this policy, which is why I rate it as Security Theater.
And any lies on immigration papers are unlikely to be "uncovered" until after the undesirable has committed their crime and the authorities have reason to double-check their application.
From reading any newspaper it seems I am far more likely to die a violent death at the hands of a US citizen anyway.
Applying for a work visa in the USA requires male applicants between 16 and 40 to fill out a supplemental form that asks for details of prior military experience (either as a combatant or a civilian), and any nuclear, biological or chemical weapons experience. There are too many problems with this retarded fucking system to count, here are a couple to get you started:
1. This is the 21st fucking century. What, are women incapable of understanding all that nucular stuff? Females aren't a threat?
2. Anyone over 40 is not even worth questioning?
3. Even if you are part of the tiny demographic that are even questioned, does Immigration think undesirables are going to tell the fucking truth on the application form?
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Hate to tag onto an AC, but they raise a good point. See also the rise of "roundup-ready" soy crops in Argentina in recent years. Monanto up to their usual tricks. I don't have an online link but it's in Global Development of Organic Agriculture: Challenges and Prospects. Knudsen et al 2006
Life of water vapour in the atmosphere is a few days (it condenses as RAIN)
Life of methane in the atmosphere is a couple of years (it degrades into CO2)
Life of CO2 in the atmosphere is a very long time,, under current global conditions.
So carbon is rightly "vilified" because it has a much longer cycle than other "greenhouse" gases. Sorry, it's not a massive conspiracy, it's just high-school science.
But the Aussies are charged between 50c and $1 per gig, so it's hardly "unlimited." Over here, Telstra are still selling "broadband" plans with a 200MB per month cap! That's not even enough to check email and keep windows and your virus software up to date.
Not exactly sure how this relates to CO2 production though.
This meme again?
Yes, the Earth's climate changes. No, it has NEVER changed so rapidly. Ice ages happen over tens of thousands of years, anthropogenic climate change is taking place in a couple of hundred. Orders of magnitude, people.
A picaxe *is* a popular Microchip PIC, running a nifty bootstrap program developed by Revolution Education in the UK. It's intended to make microcontroller accessible to everyone, using a 3-wire in-circuit programming system so schools don't have to pay for a programmer, and so that kids can't break said programmer.
The development environment uses an intuitive BASIC compiler so people with no programming experience (pre-teen kids, or just biology graduates like myself) can be writing working programs in hours.
The IDE is free-as-in-beer and the picaxe chips are cheap (under five bucks for the smaller ones) and widely available.
Yes this is a plug, I'm not affiliated with Revolution Education but I probably wouldn't have had the stamina to get into microcontrollers without them.
There's a link to the manufacturer in the summary. http://www.rev-ed.co.uk/picaxe/
Kudos to the guy who built this laptop - building your own custom filesystem using only basic is pretty badass!
PS. If you really *must* use an Atmel CPU, a nice implementation is the Arduino. http://arduino.cc/en/Main/HomePage
Who modded this flamebait? Australia DOES have bloody awful internet service, compared to the rest of the Western world. SLow speeds, download limits, not to mention the proposed filtering that has received so much press. In fact, right now, I'm browsing slashdot of dialup. Remember dialup? I have recently upgraded from my previous data plan which involved kangaroos with pouches full of punched cards and other cliches.
I'm not passed out drunk though, which nobody laments more than myself.
There's a system being deployed in Australia called Combined Heat And Power (CHAPS), that uses curved mirrors to focus the sun onto what is essentially a pipe covered in photovoltaic cells. The PVs convert some of the energy into electricity and are cooled by water flowing thru the pipe, which then feeds the hot-water system of the building they're mounted on. Total claimed efficiency is up to 60%. The system is currently installed ont he roof of one wing of Bruce Hall, a residential college at the ANU.
Linkies:
http://solar.anu.edu.au/projects/chaps_proj.php
http://abc-webdesign.com.au/examples/solar/pages/chaps.html
There's an AC buried somewhere above who makes this point too: an UNMANNED transfer. Send the ISS slow as you like, minimising fuel consumption and mechanical stress on the structure, to its future destination, then later, think about putting people on it. Even if it turns out that the station has become uninhabitable, at least now you have several tons of spare parts up out of the gravity well, and much faster to be retrieved should future astronauts need it.
I hate replying to car analogies, but here goes:
You can buy a car and do whatever you want with it, but this will void the warranty and the manufacturer will not support you if it breaks down.
You can sell the car, but NO WAY are you allowed to copy the car and sell those copies. Say if you own a car factory, you're not allowed to buy one Ford F100, then reverse-engineer it and sell identical copies as Ford F100s. Nor are you allowed to change, say, the colour of the upholstery, then sell the whole thing as your own work. No way. It's not just the electronic media that has these restrictions.
PET plastic is PET plastic. Who cares if it's been melted down and then re-cast?
Anyway, that's why they're not turning the recycled bottle into FOOD-GRADE products. I'd prefer to have a phone made of "questionable" plastics than a drink bottle. Are you going to eat the phone? Still better to eat this offering from Samsung than a different model made from nice, "fresh" brominated flame retardants.
I suggest we try to convince orientals that rats are an aphrodisiac. It worked for tigers and rhinos!
And don't even think about picking your nose, let alone touching your dick.
Tell him exactly how you feel.
Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy
Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
Deputy Leader Of The Government In The Senate,
minister@dbcde.gov.au
Tel: 03 9650 1188
Fax: 03 9650 3251
And a 747 that flies at 500 mph DOESN'T kill hundreds of people?
You're much more likely to walk away from a train wreck than a plane crash.
Are these the same as the signature pads in department stores? Because I always sign those with something stupid like "Hugh G. Rection" and have never had a problem. I have never made an issue of this at the store, or tried to get products for free, it's just my way of introducing random noise into their databases...
I couldn't find them at ThinkGeek. Anybody have a link? Sounds like a nifty, if paranoid, way to keep data "safe"
In the last ten years my country has gone to shit. We have the slowest, most expensive internet in the Western world (and they want to fuck it up even more by censoring it), the most expensive beer in the Western world, and our justice system seems more broken by the day.
Australia was a Good Idea but we really seem to have lost our direction recently. Lots of sunshine and nice beaches though, and the wildlife is neat. Come and see the animals soon because we are hell-bent on killing what's left of those through unsusainable farming, land clearing, salinity, and feral foreign plants and animals.
Hey, give him a break. Our government has blocked access to grammar websites.
Or at least eat the animals that are native to your area. Here in Australia we have no native hoofed animals, so big heavy beasts like cattle destroy our geologically ancient, fragile soils, and our plants that aren't adapted to the grazing habits of cattle.
Kangaroos however, taste like beef, are drought-tolerant, don't render land unusable after a couple of generations and also emit a fraction of the methane that big ruminants like cattle do.
Eat a kangaroo today!
Couldn't find the parent to reply too... and I have to disagree with it. The reason for McDonalds' success is that you can go into a franchise ANYWHERE in the world and get exactly the same food as you would at home. All over Europe I have found the staff at least competent in English, but usually much more competent than their counterparts in the US and UK. It's a bit embarrassing, but foreigners tend to speak English better than we do.
Having a concealed weapon, in any way, unless visibly identified as someone authorised to do so, should allow police leniancy for opening fire on you sooner. A gun in your hand is all they should need to empty their clip at you.
Um, if a weapon is concealed, how does the cop know it is there when he decides to shoot you? And how is a concealed weapon related to "a gun in your hand"?
I'm not a lawyer, is there a legal definition of these two terms I'm not aware of?
I like my backwards _country_ for this reason. All the votes nationwide are on paper. Disabled voters can cast a postal vote. And voting is compulsory, so even if we can't get the best candidate _in_ we can usually keep the worst candidate _out_. And while compulsory, it is still a secret ballot. You can cast a blank piece of paper if you are that upset by the system.
(of course the system isn't perfect, which is why it took so very many, many years to get rid of our previous Prime Minister.)
Thus resulting in an increase in undesirables over 40, and female "terrorists." I still find it hard to believe that anyone in the usa is any safer because of this policy, which is why I rate it as Security Theater.
And any lies on immigration papers are unlikely to be "uncovered" until after the undesirable has committed their crime and the authorities have reason to double-check their application.
From reading any newspaper it seems I am far more likely to die a violent death at the hands of a US citizen anyway.
Applying for a work visa in the USA requires male applicants between 16 and 40 to fill out a supplemental form that asks for details of prior military experience (either as a combatant or a civilian), and any nuclear, biological or chemical weapons experience. There are too many problems with this retarded fucking system to count, here are a couple to get you started:
1. This is the 21st fucking century. What, are women incapable of understanding all that nucular stuff? Females aren't a threat?
2. Anyone over 40 is not even worth questioning?
3. Even if you are part of the tiny demographic that are even questioned, does Immigration think undesirables are going to tell the fucking truth on the application form?
Pick any two.