Colder or hotter than usual, caused by GW. Wetter or dryer, caused by GW. More of fewer thunderstorms or snowstorms, also caused by GW.
And that makes perfect sense. Why? Because adding energy to a system increases volatility.
Think of a glass of water: undisturbed, the surface is flat. But when you shake it (adding energy) the amplitude of the surface increases greatly even though the average height of it remains constant.
You just reiterated the GP post's point: the ethanol subsidy is a huge problem. Not only are the farmers growing the wrong damn plant to produce the wrong damn fuel, but we're encouraging them to do it!
My biodiesel Volkswagen is 12 years away from the market.... meaning it was on the market 12 years ago!
Biodiesel works right now and it's easy (I didn't have to modify the car or build my own fuel-processing equipment; all I do is go to the biodiesel fuel station and pump it into the car). It even makes the car run better and pollute less (not only does biodiesel have zero sulfur, but the car produces less soot too).
A quarter acre is on the small side for the suburbs (with HOAs and whatnot), maybe, but I live in the city in an area with a rectangular street grid, designed before all the post-WW2 suburbanization.
I think the main issue regarding privacy is not the distance between houses, but rather the elevation of the neighbor's windows/deck/yard in relation to the height of the fence. The house behind mine comes within 10 feet of my fence (and within 40 feet of my house... I have more side yard than back yard), but I have no problem with that because that house doesn't have any rear-facing windows. My privacy problems come from the houses on either side: the house on my right is 2 stories tall and has windows that overlook my yard, and the fence on my left is at the bottom of a hill so those neighbors can look up the hill over it. If the land were flat and the house on my right was a bungalow like the rest of the houses in the neighborhood, neither problem would exist.
You have to manicure grasslands otherwise they overrun everything. Unless the guy wants to be helicoptered into his house, the has to keep at least a driveway and the area around his house clear.
I never said he shouldn't maintain his driveway and (if applicable) fire break. It's highly unlikely that the driveway and firebreak take up the entire (or even a significant portion of) the six acres he was talking about.
Maybe his developer turned swampland into a house in the middle of nowhere. But the area around him may still be swampland.
It's still irrelevant; if the area was swampland then he wouldn't be mowing it. If it used to be swampland and got filled in to make the lawn, then leaving it natural would turn it into whatever sort of thing the uplands adjacent to the swamp are made out of (in south Georgia, for example, that would be pine forest).
You seem to advocate taking away this man's right...
Go fuck yourself, because I did not advocate anything of the sort and I resent you for your filthy lie claiming I did! All I said was that he (and the land, and the environment) would be better off if he left it alone instead of wasting his time and other resources mowing it for no good reason. I never said anything about forcing him to do so; he can be as stupid as he wants to be.
And how do you know what the natural state of his land? Maybe grassland is the natural state of his area.
I don't know the natural state of his land. The point is that whatever it is, it requires fewer resources to maintain than a manicured lawn (and provides more habitat, etc.). Lawns have to be mowed; grasslands do not.
A lawn is more of a desert in terms of biodiversity than an actual desert is!
Grasslands produce little timber.
Hence, "unless he lives in an arid area." Grasslands are arid.
Some swamplands produce no timber.
If he lived in a swamp, we wouldn't be arguing about what he should do with his damn lawn, now would we?!
Besides I don't know where the poster lives. If he lives near a national park, there is plenty of land around for wildlife.
There's no such thing as "plenty of land around for wildlife" anywhere on Earth.
I'm not buying your strawman argument. In reality either the park is much bigger than a soccer field or there are a whole bunch of tiny parks and you could just go to the next one a block over to find space to play frisbee.
If your parks really are tiny and far apart, then it means you live in an utter shithole that's worse even than US cities at funding parks.
He has 6 acres; he wants help in finding the best way to mow it. Would you rather he bought the land and not maintained it?
Yes, I would. If all he's doing is wasting resources maintaining it, it's better off returning to its natural state. At least then it would become a habitat for wildlife (something we need definitely need more of). Plus, unless he lives in an arid area, it would eventually produce timber.
I think the gist of the grandparent post was that if everybody didn't waste so much space, time, and money on individual huge yards then the park wouldn't have to be a couple miles away, but rather a couple blocks away (or closer). Where I live the lots are 1/4 acre, which is still plenty big for barbecuing, gardening, and keeping outdoor pets (most of my neighbors have dogs, and one even has chickens), and I've got 3 pretty big parks within a 1-mile radius.
Also, my neighborhood has a "parents network" that organizes playgroups; there's a very decent chance that the park would have a parent on premises.
Why wouldn't you want to buy a house for a couple days worth of labor?
No matter how cheap the labor gets, you're still going to have to pay for the (ever scarcer) land under it.
Why wouldn't you want to live in the ST:TNG universe where unemployment is apparent somewhere around 99%?
ST:TNG represents the universe from the perspective of the elite (and even then, there are still "have-nots," such as colonists, around). Look to DS9 for a more realistic picture of the Star Trek universe's economy.
What is funny how people support this insane government ideology, which is completely against their own self interest of having more purchasing power and less expensive products.
It works out great for people with lots of fixed-rate debt, though! I'm looking forward to being able to pay off my mortgage and student loans with pocket change in a few years...
No kidding! Population is a Logistic Curve, not an exponential one. It only looks exponential because we haven't hit the inflection point yet (for the total world population anyway; developed nations have hit the inflection point and Japan is at the asymptote).
Or, in other terms, what happens when you take the lump payment and pay the tax, but put the remainder into something like an internationally diversified, periodically rebalanced 60% stock/40% bond portfolio?
Depending on how big the winnings are beyond your existing/desired standard of living, you could probably live off a lower withdrawal rate and thereby withstand more risk than that.
The hard part is Gmail, which I access via both webmail and my Android phone. It needs a complex password to prevent people from hacking it over the Internet, but also simultaneously a simple password to protect against people stealing my phone.
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And that makes perfect sense. Why? Because adding energy to a system increases volatility.
Think of a glass of water: undisturbed, the surface is flat. But when you shake it (adding energy) the amplitude of the surface increases greatly even though the average height of it remains constant.
Indeed; that's a segment where it makes sense to buy Apple (compared to buying Dell).
(Note: I tried my damnedest to phrase this as neutrally as possible. Nobody start a flame war, please.)
Good thing that here in America, the London situation would tend not to happen because carrying a shotgun down the street isn't illegal.
That's nothing; some cars of the same model year and price get 50 mpg!
You just reiterated the GP post's point: the ethanol subsidy is a huge problem. Not only are the farmers growing the wrong damn plant to produce the wrong damn fuel, but we're encouraging them to do it!
My biodiesel Volkswagen is 12 years away from the market.... meaning it was on the market 12 years ago!
Biodiesel works right now and it's easy (I didn't have to modify the car or build my own fuel-processing equipment; all I do is go to the biodiesel fuel station and pump it into the car). It even makes the car run better and pollute less (not only does biodiesel have zero sulfur, but the car produces less soot too).
"They're Pinky and The Brain/Yes, Pinky and The Brain/One is a genius /The other's insane."
But which was which? Think about it...
The Ford F150 is the most popular truck in America. Why? Because GM makes the Chevy Silverado and the GMC Sierra.
But that doesn't mean Fords are actually more popular than GMs, just as iPhones aren't more popular than Android phones.
That's absurd and ridiculous; it's at least an order of magnitude more expensive than a license for driving a car!
Freight rail is. Of course, it did get massive subsidies (in terms of right-of-way) about a century ago.
A quarter acre is on the small side for the suburbs (with HOAs and whatnot), maybe, but I live in the city in an area with a rectangular street grid, designed before all the post-WW2 suburbanization.
I think the main issue regarding privacy is not the distance between houses, but rather the elevation of the neighbor's windows/deck/yard in relation to the height of the fence. The house behind mine comes within 10 feet of my fence (and within 40 feet of my house... I have more side yard than back yard), but I have no problem with that because that house doesn't have any rear-facing windows. My privacy problems come from the houses on either side: the house on my right is 2 stories tall and has windows that overlook my yard, and the fence on my left is at the bottom of a hill so those neighbors can look up the hill over it. If the land were flat and the house on my right was a bungalow like the rest of the houses in the neighborhood, neither problem would exist.
Wow, nothing but strawman arguments!
I never said he shouldn't maintain his driveway and (if applicable) fire break. It's highly unlikely that the driveway and firebreak take up the entire (or even a significant portion of) the six acres he was talking about.
It's still irrelevant; if the area was swampland then he wouldn't be mowing it. If it used to be swampland and got filled in to make the lawn, then leaving it natural would turn it into whatever sort of thing the uplands adjacent to the swamp are made out of (in south Georgia, for example, that would be pine forest).
Go fuck yourself, because I did not advocate anything of the sort and I resent you for your filthy lie claiming I did! All I said was that he (and the land, and the environment) would be better off if he left it alone instead of wasting his time and other resources mowing it for no good reason. I never said anything about forcing him to do so; he can be as stupid as he wants to be.
I don't know the natural state of his land. The point is that whatever it is, it requires fewer resources to maintain than a manicured lawn (and provides more habitat, etc.). Lawns have to be mowed; grasslands do not.
A lawn is more of a desert in terms of biodiversity than an actual desert is!
Hence, "unless he lives in an arid area." Grasslands are arid.
Some swamplands produce no timber.
If he lived in a swamp, we wouldn't be arguing about what he should do with his damn lawn, now would we?!
There's no such thing as "plenty of land around for wildlife" anywhere on Earth.
I'm not buying your strawman argument. In reality either the park is much bigger than a soccer field or there are a whole bunch of tiny parks and you could just go to the next one a block over to find space to play frisbee.
If your parks really are tiny and far apart, then it means you live in an utter shithole that's worse even than US cities at funding parks.
Yes, I would. If all he's doing is wasting resources maintaining it, it's better off returning to its natural state. At least then it would become a habitat for wildlife (something we need definitely need more of). Plus, unless he lives in an arid area, it would eventually produce timber.
I think the gist of the grandparent post was that if everybody didn't waste so much space, time, and money on individual huge yards then the park wouldn't have to be a couple miles away, but rather a couple blocks away (or closer). Where I live the lots are 1/4 acre, which is still plenty big for barbecuing, gardening, and keeping outdoor pets (most of my neighbors have dogs, and one even has chickens), and I've got 3 pretty big parks within a 1-mile radius.
Also, my neighborhood has a "parents network" that organizes playgroups; there's a very decent chance that the park would have a parent on premises.
No matter how cheap the labor gets, you're still going to have to pay for the (ever scarcer) land under it.
ST:TNG represents the universe from the perspective of the elite (and even then, there are still "have-nots," such as colonists, around). Look to DS9 for a more realistic picture of the Star Trek universe's economy.
It works out great for people with lots of fixed-rate debt, though! I'm looking forward to being able to pay off my mortgage and student loans with pocket change in a few years...
For me, the graded work and scheduling is the key. It's the first free online course that includes a strategy to prevent procrastination!
Renewable is a function of feasibility, not possibility.
You (correct answer) - "It's not that I think I'm smarter than you; it's that I spend my life learning this shit and you have better things to do."
Why would they feel cheated/insulted? We geeks are weird; it makes perfect sense that we'd use a different distro than one suited to normal people.
Do they also get insulted when their Volkswagen-driving mechanic recommends that they buy a Toyota?
No kidding! Population is a Logistic Curve, not an exponential one. It only looks exponential because we haven't hit the inflection point yet (for the total world population anyway; developed nations have hit the inflection point and Japan is at the asymptote).
Depending on how big the winnings are beyond your existing/desired standard of living, you could probably live off a lower withdrawal rate and thereby withstand more risk than that.
The hard part is Gmail, which I access via both webmail and my Android phone. It needs a complex password to prevent people from hacking it over the Internet, but also simultaneously a simple password to protect against people stealing my phone.