They can't be identified with the CSSViewer plug-in. I also get a notice that a plug-in is needed for idle from NoScript. Also, the zooicons aren't working across all of slashdot; I'm getting text alternatives here. I added the rule.zooicon:before { content: attr(class) " "; } just to get an idea about what's going on with that.
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Running on some version of Ubuntu but displaying on a Redhat 9 box, and getting "Pango-WARNING **: libthai.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" all the time.
Trees have a finite lifespan, and, as noted, when they die they (barring very rare circumstances) release the carbon back into the atmosphere.
If the median tree carbon content is 5 tons and life is 50 years, each tree sequesters 250 ton-years of carbon.
The rest of your response hinges on the accuracy of these figures. I'm pretty sure that, barring acts of nature or man, most trees live much longer than humans:
The verified oldest measured ages are:
African Baobab, Adansonia digitata: 6,000 years according to carbon dating
Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Methuselah) Pinus longaeva: 4,844 years
Alerce Fitzroya cupressoides: 3,622 years
Giant Sequoia Sequoiadendron giganteum: 3,266 years
Sugi Cryptomeria japonica: 3,000 years
Huon-pine Lagarostrobos franklinii: 2,500 years
Other species suspected of reaching exceptional age include Ginkgo Ginkgo biloba (over 3,500 years), European Yew Taxus baccata (probably over 2,000 years) and Western Redcedar Thuja plicata.
The oldest reported age for an angiosperm tree after the African Baobab (A. digitata) is 2293 years for the Sri Maha Bodhi Sacred Fig (Ficus religiosa) planted in 288 BC at Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka; this is also the oldest human-planted tree with a known planting date.
So yeah, we're talking about natural and maintenance-free sequestration for millennia.
How much carbon they contain can be extrapolated from their volume (or half of it from their above-ground volume).
And besides, when a tree dies it doesn't spontaneously release all its carbon into the atmosphere. It doesn't spontaneously evaporate into a cloud of hydrogen, ozone, and carbon monoxide. Turn a dead tree into wood and you can make homes and furniture while still keeping the carbon sequestered in a solid (and useful) state.
You might as well be demanding an end to the cremation of humans and require that bodies be not just buried but sequestered in depleted oil wells upon death.
If Ahmadinejad does have such huge support, why does he have to photoshop his crowds?
I'd need a more thorough examination of that image to be convinced it was to enlarge the crowd. The pattern of the copied sections to me suggest that the clone tool was used to mask out sections, possibly signage of dissenters, military barricades, or the crowd image's true source (foreign landmarks).
You need a more complete analysis mapping all areas exhibiting cloning to know how much has been faked (and which of two copied sections are the original) before drawing any definitive conclusions.
"Paper ballots?" "Digital voting machines are way too easy to tamper with, and campaigns get really competitive around here." -- Sheriff Jack Carter and Deputy Jo Lupo; Eureka "Here Come The Suns"
I want a website where my ssn and vote are public record!
So... you want a system where your employer can retaliate against you for voting the wrong way?
Perhaps it encased itself in enough real ice such that no more CO2 could escape?
Just because you drop something cold in warm water doesn't mean the warm water stays warm, especially the water in close proximity to something very cold.
RoSPA believes that the law regarding video devices in cars is "fuzzy" and needs updating. The group points out that the use of cathode ray televisions in cars is illegal, but that there is no mention of LCD technology.
Well, that may be the case over there, but I don't think it is here in the states. The only reason you can no longer buy little 5" CRTs that have car lighter/aux power adapters here is because there are no signals for them to tune into anymore.
I look forward to seeing more portable ATSC-tuning TVs in the future. We need some high-pixel-density LCDs in consumer products. Then we can rip them out and build them into our shuttle PCs. Mmm... 5" 1080p front-panel-display computer.
On a side-note.. I believe there was an article not too long ago on Slashdot about researching being able to zap a metal with a laser for some stupendously short amount of time and essentially make it change colors. Suppose you did that with, say, Platinum.. that could be one heck of an archival medium, then.. although the picture would look oddly metallic and shiny:)
If you read the comments, you find he did offer $30 anyway, but the guy declined the money.
His statement that he was intending to track them down from his end but was intimidated by the messages may have been genuine. He might have been fearing a beatdown from the owner (no good deed goes unpunished), or wanting a neutral location at which to make the exchange away from family.
If you know what to look for, it's easy to see. Pray you don't learn what to look for. Like the arrow in the FedEx logo, once you've seen it, you can't ever not see it.
I, like most people in region 1, do not buy movies outside of region 1.
There, fixed that for you.
Indeed. And apparently, I'm not like most people in region 1. I've got three movies on their way from region 2. One isn't available in region 1 (Electric Dreams), two others aren't available in the proper aspect ratio in region 1 (Iceman, Colossus: The Forbin Project).
AFAIK, the add-on for the XBox is only usable for videos.
Well, not many people released HD DVD-ROM media and the XBOX 360 won't run games off of it, but it is in a USB enclosure and can be used with desktop computers. (Macs must be running at least Leopard to read the disks. Third-party UDF drivers for Tiger simply don't work.)
Keep in mind that that is one vendor on Amazon whose stock ships from Amazon (thus the Super-Saver Shipping) and not Amazon itself.
As to the count, well, I have one Blu-ray player (PS3), two HD DVD players (for the XBOX 360, also two bundled copies of King Kong), and a Blu-ray burner that can also read HD DVDs. So HD DVD would seem to be winning 3:2 for this one consumer.
And I'm still buying HD DVDs. Just as good as Blu-ray but at bargain prices, and I have my backup drives. But I believe I have more Blu-ray discs than HD DVDs. (Still, DVD outnumbers them all and continues to grow for otherwise unobtainable titles.)
I've been meaning to find out what the XBOX 360 does when you connect two HD DVD drives to one box. I never got around to doing it before the dashboard update. The new UI probably handles it better.
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They can't be identified with the CSSViewer plug-in. I also get a notice that a plug-in is needed for idle from NoScript. Also, the zooicons aren't working across all of slashdot; I'm getting text alternatives here. I added the rule .zooicon:before { content: attr(class) " "; } just to get an idea about what's going on with that.
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Running on some version of Ubuntu but displaying on a Redhat 9 box, and getting "Pango-WARNING **: libthai.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" all the time.
Trees have a finite lifespan, and, as noted, when they die they (barring very rare circumstances) release the carbon back into the atmosphere.
If the median tree carbon content is 5 tons and life is 50 years, each tree sequesters 250 ton-years of carbon.
The rest of your response hinges on the accuracy of these figures. I'm pretty sure that, barring acts of nature or man, most trees live much longer than humans:
So yeah, we're talking about natural and maintenance-free sequestration for millennia.
How much carbon they contain can be extrapolated from their volume (or half of it from their above-ground volume).
And besides, when a tree dies it doesn't spontaneously release all its carbon into the atmosphere. It doesn't spontaneously evaporate into a cloud of hydrogen, ozone, and carbon monoxide. Turn a dead tree into wood and you can make homes and furniture while still keeping the carbon sequestered in a solid (and useful) state.
You might as well be demanding an end to the cremation of humans and require that bodies be not just buried but sequestered in depleted oil wells upon death.
If Ahmadinejad does have such huge support, why does he have to photoshop his crowds?
I'd need a more thorough examination of that image to be convinced it was to enlarge the crowd. The pattern of the copied sections to me suggest that the clone tool was used to mask out sections, possibly signage of dissenters, military barricades, or the crowd image's true source (foreign landmarks).
You need a more complete analysis mapping all areas exhibiting cloning to know how much has been faked (and which of two copied sections are the original) before drawing any definitive conclusions.
I'm not saying it's right or wrong, just that acting in pure self-interest is by far the rule for nation-states, not the exception.
Just like corporations.
Well, except that, for corporations, it's the law.
"Paper ballots?"
"Digital voting machines are way too easy to tamper with, and campaigns get really competitive around here."
-- Sheriff Jack Carter and Deputy Jo Lupo; Eureka "Here Come The Suns"
I want a website where my ssn and vote are public record!
So... you want a system where your employer can retaliate against you for voting the wrong way?
Ditto. Also, this message
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any line in this message.
Looks like my client-side stylesheet is still correcting for that.
Now, about these various thumb sliders scattered throughout the replies....
Dead trees release their carbon back into the atmosphere...
Is it that hard not to kill a tree? Versus maintaining a liquid CO2 sequestration device and storage facility?
Strange how you can say anything on the internet and claim that it's true.
Incidentally, I dropped an apple out of my window yesterday and it fell up! True story.
Sorry, that was my fault. I had the polarity of my neutron flow reversed.
I don't think the area of Iraq is evenly distributed with Americans, let alone remotely as evenly as Philly.
My mother's generation as kids used to use mercury to polish their coins.
Perhaps it encased itself in enough real ice such that no more CO2 could escape?
Just because you drop something cold in warm water doesn't mean the warm water stays warm, especially the water in close proximity to something very cold.
RoSPA believes that the law regarding video devices in cars is "fuzzy" and needs updating. The group points out that the use of cathode ray televisions in cars is illegal, but that there is no mention of LCD technology.
Well, that may be the case over there, but I don't think it is here in the states. The only reason you can no longer buy little 5" CRTs that have car lighter/aux power adapters here is because there are no signals for them to tune into anymore.
I look forward to seeing more portable ATSC-tuning TVs in the future. We need some high-pixel-density LCDs in consumer products. Then we can rip them out and build them into our shuttle PCs. Mmm... 5" 1080p front-panel-display computer.
On a side-note.. I believe there was an article not too long ago on Slashdot about researching being able to zap a metal with a laser for some stupendously short amount of time and essentially make it change colors. Suppose you did that with, say, Platinum.. that could be one heck of an archival medium, then.. although the picture would look oddly metallic and shiny :)
in all of its dreary blue fuzziness.
Kodachrome was like smoking pot.
Fuji is like doing acid.
Agfa is like a rainy day...
Cerulean blue is like a gentle breeze.
You mean like a patent, filed with and available to the public from the USPTO?
So much for getting an Apple IIgs emulator on the iPhone 3G S.
I don't see the problem. But then I have all my music in a format which can be read pretty much anywhere.
Well, not everyone knows how to read sheet music.
I prefer the personal touch you only get with hired goons.
If you read the comments, you find he did offer $30 anyway, but the guy declined the money.
His statement that he was intending to track them down from his end but was intimidated by the messages may have been genuine. He might have been fearing a beatdown from the owner (no good deed goes unpunished), or wanting a neutral location at which to make the exchange away from family.
If you know what to look for, it's easy to see. Pray you don't learn what to look for. Like the arrow in the FedEx logo, once you've seen it, you can't ever not see it.
I, like most people in region 1, do not buy movies outside of region 1.
There, fixed that for you.
Indeed. And apparently, I'm not like most people in region 1. I've got three movies on their way from region 2. One isn't available in region 1 (Electric Dreams), two others aren't available in the proper aspect ratio in region 1 (Iceman, Colossus: The Forbin Project).
AFAIK, the add-on for the XBox is only usable for videos.
Well, not many people released HD DVD-ROM media and the XBOX 360 won't run games off of it, but it is in a USB enclosure and can be used with desktop computers. (Macs must be running at least Leopard to read the disks. Third-party UDF drivers for Tiger simply don't work.)
Why is this a troll? I know a lot of people who have xboxes and not a single one has opted to pay extra for the HD-DVD drive.
I bought *two*.
And I got two refund checks for them.
And since the second one was discounted, after all was said and done I was only out money for half of one.
However, I have not tested them with the new XBOX 360 dashboard yet.
It's kind of tempting when HD DVDs are selling brand new on Amazon for $4.
Keep in mind that that is one vendor on Amazon whose stock ships from Amazon (thus the Super-Saver Shipping) and not Amazon itself.
As to the count, well, I have one Blu-ray player (PS3), two HD DVD players (for the XBOX 360, also two bundled copies of King Kong), and a Blu-ray burner that can also read HD DVDs. So HD DVD would seem to be winning 3:2 for this one consumer.
And I'm still buying HD DVDs. Just as good as Blu-ray but at bargain prices, and I have my backup drives. But I believe I have more Blu-ray discs than HD DVDs. (Still, DVD outnumbers them all and continues to grow for otherwise unobtainable titles.)
I've been meaning to find out what the XBOX 360 does when you connect two HD DVD drives to one box. I never got around to doing it before the dashboard update. The new UI probably handles it better.
I take it comics featuring The Fantastic Four don't sell well in China.