The term "carbon" is used because CO2 comes from oxidizing carbon, and oxygen is much, much harder to control than carbon, or else we might be talking about our "oxygen footprint."
Why, CO2 is so very wonderful that we really should not bother breathing anything else. Just tie a plastic bag over your head to experience the wonderful feelings of dizziness and ohmygod why is the floor moving..?
Sorry, just responding to the hyperbole. You can't make a problem go away by consulting a dictionary and trying to define it out of existence.
The theory, of course, is that trees will grow more in warmer weather. Obviously this can only be true up to a point: in the naive case, if it gets too hot the tree will die. In practice there is a cutoff point above which temperature will no longer affect tree growth, so other variables predominate. One obvious variable is rainfall, which likewise has a similar cutoff point for affecting tree growth but which may vary independently or even in opposition to temperature.
This is true if you are talking about Europe, but IMO the AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current) makes all European climate analysis too chaotic to be of any real use, globally. Look up the Elder and Younger Dryas, when France was reduced to arctic tundra (twice) while the rest of the world was largely unaffected. Whoever is claiming that their warming trend was global (based on one data point) is claiming victory without even playing the game Europe's climate may be the most chaotic in the world, and its temperature changes have always been decoupled from (and occasionally opposed to) the rest of the planet. There is already too much evidence that the medieval warming period was isolated for this to be overturned so easily.
The point is that--either way--you have to spend time down at the precinct getting your fingerprints and mug shots taken. It is too high a cost to pay if you can be reported to the police for having the wrong shade of carpet...six times a minute.
What really surprises me is that anyone thought it was worth getting in a twist about. Twenty-six pages of metrically tortuous poetry would concern me, but of a novel? If you can't recover your first chapter from memory--while making it even better the second time--then you aren't writing anything anyone would want to read.
Curious fact: I used to program this way, too, back in the day of tape drives.
Peter Sinclair just did a piece on Harrison Schmidt's scientific integrity, vis-a-vis this story.
Now, Harrison Schmitt, ex-astronaut, and a board member at the Oil and Tobacco shilling Heartland Institute, whose own shaky scientific integrity is documented in the video... has apparently trolled the ranks of retired right wing NASA engineers (don’t see any climate specialists on this list) for yet another anti-factual denialosphere non-news story. Schmidt was famously rejected for a post heading the New Mexico Department of Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources after accounts of his scientific distortions surfaced. He is also noted for appearing on the Moon-bat Conspiracy theory Alex Jones show to discuss his theory that the "environmental movement has been taken over by communists".
And they are from "Plants Need CO2." The name of this organization says a great deal: 1) They are anthropogenic global warming denialists, because plants need atmospheric CO2, so any increase in atmospheric CO2 must be a very good thing. 2) Their best argument is that "Plants need CO2," which suggests that they aren't targeting the intellectual crowd. Seriously, how stupid do you have to be to fall for that rhetorical trick? Plants also need H2O and fertilizer, but it may not have occurred to these people that it is possible to have too much of an otherwise good thing.
The comments here will be very different from anything you might encounter on CNN. Actually, I never cared about the comments at CNN. Here they can be interesting.
It isn't clear to me how sea water would affect a neutron flux, especially after it had boiled a bit. I don't think it is clear to anyone else, either, but certainly the lack of boron absorb stray neutrons and keep them out of the chain reaction makes criticality more likely.
Yes, physical access is required. I used to have a cheap pocket lcd terminal could have plugged in to access the machine, but it's likely that if I have access to the room I already have admin access to the hardware anyway.
You aren't going to see email spammers pulling this, but state actors who can afford to train people in real cloak-and-dagger operations might find this back door useful, in that it allows quick--virtually instant-- rootkit installation if you have the right piece of hardware ready to plug in the jack. If this hardware is not actively protected then someone walking by might quickly be having it phone home.
Super-large plant genomes are usually the result of chromosome-doubling. This is usually quite fatal to animals, but plants tolerate it well, and often use it to create new genes as duplicates are free to evolve in new directions. Most of the extra genes are simply redundant, however, and do nothing but consume resources. If a plant species undergoes repeated doublings it can quickly become the genomic monstrosity we have here, which is likely to become extinct if it does not fix itself.
They aren't supposed to go that fast... I'm calling zombie bullshit on that you know? i mean they're not supposed to run so fast" -Zoey, Left 4 Dead, a character who's backstory involved a lot of watching horror movies instead of attending classes.
Cable modems are maintained by the ISP, even if you own them. Otherwise they would not let you connect them to their cable. Otherwise people would be hacking their firmware to remove speed caps. The cable modem firmware can only be upgraded on a downlink from the ISP servers, using Simple Network Protocol over the cable. It's part of DOCSIS, and it keeps the cable companies in control of their own network. If you have a hackable modem and tinker with it they will ban you like Comcast did to all the kiddies who tinkered with their own parameters. I discovered this years ago when I needed a firmware update for my crippled linksys and was astonished that there was no way for a user to upgrade. And my ISP didn't even know this, either. "If that were true we would have to keep firmware upgrades for all brands of modems." D'oh! That's exactly correct.
That being said, a router is not necessarily a modem. Mine is separate. I own it and I and hacked my router firmware first week I had it. Technically, my router is just a linux computer attached to their modem, so they better not be changing my passwords.
STILL using Ada because it is specified in the contracts by default and no one has the sense to ask for anything else. Fifteen years ago our contractor had to send people to school to learn it in order to support the contract. Still using MS-DOS probably for the same reason. I worked on a little training system that ran on PC's and I made sure the DOS licenses were were stored under the floor boards so that they would never get lost. We had to have them in case we ever got inspected and Lord knows there was no way at that time to obtain MS-DOS 5.1 any more. I didn't know Perl existed (maybe it didn't) so I wrote string-handling utilities in C++ in my spare time.
Odd. In the USA newsprint is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration for the simple reason that is is often used in food preparation. For example, dangerous metals and volatile organic compounds are prohibited in newsprint.
So go ahead wrap that fish, it's prolly more toxic than the newspaper.
My own brief experience as a inner-city math teacher would at first suggest that girls are better at math, but on reflection I think it merely seems that way because the girls are generally less arrogant about their own abilities and are more likely to ask for help, or to pay attention when I force it upon them. It is not unusual for me to to find myself trying to teach a boy who insists that he does not need my help (or anyone's) and can do it by himself (by doing nothing) even though he obviously cannot. It's a cultural thing, of course, but I have not been able to break through it yet.
Internet jargon? A friend got in a little trouble for writing "WTF?" on a student's essay back in '84. He explained that it stood for "What's this for?" But the acronym probably dates back at least to WW2.
Right now I have to use IE because FF3 keeps instantly crashing. Wonderful. No useful diagnostics. Maybe it's an addon but I they are supposed to be vetted.
How do you justify the statement that Microsoft is usually more greedy than Apple? They are both for-profit corporations; they are greedy by definition: that is their reason for existence. So when you claim that Microsoft is greedier do you mean that it has seen greater stock growth?
Perhaps you mean that Microsoft is more liable to push the boundaries of the law or to behave less ethically, but I do not see it. Microsoft may abuse its monopoly on software but Apple would very much like to abuse its monopoly on hardware. Fortunately, Apple does not have such a monopoly, except amongst Macintosh users, who complain often about expensive hardware.
First Article on Music Theory they ever published?
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The Geometry of Music
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· Score: 4, Informative
This is emphatically NOT the first paper on music theory they have ever run. A cursory search turned up several other recent papers. I'm too busy reading Dmitri Tymoczko's report on "The Geometry of Musical Chords" to write any more ---Science 7 July 2006: Vol. 313. no. 5783, pp. 72 - 74 DOI: 10.1126/science.1126287
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The term "carbon" is used because CO2 comes from oxidizing carbon, and oxygen is much, much harder to control than carbon, or else we might be talking about our "oxygen footprint."
"plain old non-toxic non-polluting CO2".
Why, CO2 is so very wonderful that we really should not bother breathing anything else. Just tie a plastic bag over your head to experience the wonderful feelings of dizziness and ohmygod why is the floor moving..?
Sorry, just responding to the hyperbole. You can't make a problem go away by consulting a dictionary and trying to define it out of existence.
The theory, of course, is that trees will grow more in warmer weather. Obviously this can only be true up to a point: in the naive case, if it gets too hot the tree will die. In practice there is a cutoff point above which temperature will no longer affect tree growth, so other variables predominate. One obvious variable is rainfall, which likewise has a similar cutoff point for affecting tree growth but which may vary independently or even in opposition to temperature.
This is true if you are talking about Europe, but IMO the AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current) makes all European climate analysis too chaotic to be of any real use, globally. Look up the Elder and Younger Dryas, when France was reduced to arctic tundra (twice) while the rest of the world was largely unaffected. Whoever is claiming that their warming trend was global (based on one data point) is claiming victory without even playing the game Europe's climate may be the most chaotic in the world, and its temperature changes have always been decoupled from (and occasionally opposed to) the rest of the planet. There is already too much evidence that the medieval warming period was isolated for this to be overturned so easily.
The point is that--either way--you have to spend time down at the precinct getting your fingerprints and mug shots taken. It is too high a cost to pay if you can be reported to the police for having the wrong shade of carpet...six times a minute.
I agree with all of that except for your argument about the pain. Two words: bed sores.
What really surprises me is that anyone thought it was worth getting in a twist about. Twenty-six pages of metrically tortuous poetry would concern me, but of a novel? If you can't recover your first chapter from memory--while making it even better the second time--then you aren't writing anything anyone would want to read.
Curious fact: I used to program this way, too, back in the day of tape drives.
Peter Sinclair just did a piece on Harrison Schmidt's scientific integrity, vis-a-vis this story.
Now, Harrison Schmitt, ex-astronaut, and a board member at the Oil and Tobacco shilling Heartland Institute, whose own shaky scientific integrity is documented in the video ... has apparently trolled the ranks of retired right wing NASA engineers (don’t see any climate specialists on this list) for yet another anti-factual denialosphere non-news story. Schmidt was famously rejected for a post heading the New Mexico Department of Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources after accounts of his scientific distortions surfaced. He is also noted for appearing on the Moon-bat Conspiracy theory Alex Jones show to discuss his theory that the "environmental movement has been taken over by communists".
http://climatecrocks.com/2012/04/11/heartlands-truth-challenged-harrison-schmidt-trolls-nasa-nursing-home-for-new-list-of-scientists/
Presumably, Schmitt and Heartland [Institute] will be following up with a list of Doctors who prefer Camels.
And they are from "Plants Need CO2." The name of this organization says a great deal:
1) They are anthropogenic global warming denialists, because plants need atmospheric CO2, so any increase in atmospheric CO2 must be a very good thing.
2) Their best argument is that "Plants need CO2," which suggests that they aren't targeting the intellectual crowd. Seriously, how stupid do you have to be to fall for that rhetorical trick? Plants also need H2O and fertilizer, but it may not have occurred to these people that it is possible to have too much of an otherwise good thing.
The comments here will be very different from anything you might encounter on CNN. Actually, I never cared about the comments at CNN. Here they can be interesting.
It isn't clear to me how sea water would affect a neutron flux, especially after it had boiled a bit. I don't think it is clear to anyone else, either, but certainly the lack of boron absorb stray neutrons and keep them out of the chain reaction makes criticality more likely.
There is a special place in hell for P-value fishers and other scientific sinners:
http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2010/11/9-circles-of-scientific-hell.html
Yes, physical access is required. I used to have a cheap pocket lcd terminal could have plugged in to access the machine, but it's likely that if I have access to the room I already have admin access to the hardware anyway.
You aren't going to see email spammers pulling this, but state actors who can afford to train people in real cloak-and-dagger operations might find this back door useful, in that it allows quick--virtually instant-- rootkit installation if you have the right piece of hardware ready to plug in the jack. If this hardware is not actively protected then someone walking by might quickly be having it phone home.
I remember my father being really disappointed that I was studying dead-end stuff like programming back in 1982
Super-large plant genomes are usually the result of chromosome-doubling. This is usually quite fatal to animals, but plants tolerate it well, and often use it to create new genes as duplicates are free to evolve in new directions. Most of the extra genes are simply redundant, however, and do nothing but consume resources. If a plant species undergoes repeated doublings it can quickly become the genomic monstrosity we have here, which is likely to become extinct if it does not fix itself.
They aren't supposed to go that fast... I'm calling zombie bullshit on that you know? i mean they're not supposed to run so fast" -Zoey, Left 4 Dead, a character who's backstory involved a lot of watching horror movies instead of attending classes.
Cable modems are maintained by the ISP, even if you own them. Otherwise they would not let you connect them to their cable. Otherwise people would be hacking their firmware to remove speed caps. The cable modem firmware can only be upgraded on a downlink from the ISP servers, using Simple Network Protocol over the cable. It's part of DOCSIS, and it keeps the cable companies in control of their own network. If you have a hackable modem and tinker with it they will ban you like Comcast did to all the kiddies who tinkered with their own parameters. I discovered this years ago when I needed a firmware update for my crippled linksys and was astonished that there was no way for a user to upgrade. And my ISP didn't even know this, either. "If that were true we would have to keep firmware upgrades for all brands of modems." D'oh! That's exactly correct.
That being said, a router is not necessarily a modem. Mine is separate. I own it and I and hacked my router firmware first week I had it. Technically, my router is just a linux computer attached to their modem, so they better not be changing my passwords.
Oh. My. God.
STILL using Ada because it is specified in the contracts by default and no one has the sense to ask for anything else. Fifteen years ago our contractor had to send people to school to learn it in order to support the contract. Still using MS-DOS probably for the same reason. I worked on a little training system that ran on PC's and I made sure the DOS licenses were were stored under the floor boards so that they would never get lost. We had to have them in case we ever got inspected and Lord knows there was no way at that time to obtain MS-DOS 5.1 any more. I didn't know Perl existed (maybe it didn't) so I wrote string-handling utilities in C++ in my spare time.
Odd. In the USA newsprint is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration for the simple reason that is is often used in food preparation. For example, dangerous metals and volatile organic compounds are prohibited in newsprint.
So go ahead wrap that fish, it's prolly more toxic than the newspaper.
My own brief experience as a inner-city math teacher would at first suggest that girls are better at math, but on reflection I think it merely seems that way because the girls are generally less arrogant about their own abilities and are more likely to ask for help, or to pay attention when I force it upon them. It is not unusual for me to to find myself trying to teach a boy who insists that he does not need my help (or anyone's) and can do it by himself (by doing nothing) even though he obviously cannot. It's a cultural thing, of course, but I have not been able to break through it yet.
NC stands for "No Connection."
Internet jargon? A friend got in a little trouble for writing "WTF?" on a student's essay back in '84. He explained that it stood for "What's this for?" But the acronym probably dates back at least to WW2.
Right now I have to use IE because FF3 keeps instantly crashing. Wonderful. No useful diagnostics. Maybe it's an addon but I they are supposed to be vetted.
How do you justify the statement that Microsoft is usually more greedy than Apple? They are both for-profit corporations; they are greedy by definition: that is their reason for existence. So when you claim that Microsoft is greedier do you mean that it has seen greater stock growth?
Perhaps you mean that Microsoft is more liable to push the boundaries of the law or to behave less ethically, but I do not see it. Microsoft may abuse its monopoly on software but Apple would very much like to abuse its monopoly on hardware. Fortunately, Apple does not have such a monopoly, except amongst Macintosh users, who complain often about expensive hardware.
This is emphatically NOT the first paper on music theory they have ever run. A cursory search turned up several other recent papers. I'm too busy reading Dmitri Tymoczko's report on "The Geometry of Musical Chords" to write any more ---Science 7 July 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5783, pp. 72 - 74
DOI: 10.1126/science.1126287