I am truly sad at this great moment in history. Farewell Discovery. You have flown well. You have carried our greatest dreams, lifted us up after tragedy, and inspired the hearts and minds of millions. Adieu. We will always remember you.
While not totally unexpected, I was a little surprised to see that Apple has dropped nVidia for AMD discrete graphics controller. I wasn't expecting to see that change for another cycle.
Keep Cheques. Get rid of Cash. Nothing erks me more that "cash only" establishments. If you are too cheap to buy a card reader than you should take my cheque. Cash is for crooks and tax evaders.
USAA (United Serviceman Automobile Association) is not your normal bank that has offices all over where you can make a deposit. It is a banking service available to military personnel and their dependents. It has always been set up so that servicemen deployed around the world can access their accounts. Before they wrote the iPhone app, members could scan their cheques and email them to the bank for credit, this is just an extension of that service, nothing new.
My experience has shown time and again that it is the rule breakers that start the jams. It is always with respect to a merge. Some jerk tries to get by just one more car and squeezes in at the last point forcing the cars behind him to stop so they don't hit him and voila, traffic jam. If he had just merged sooner, or followed an every other pattern there wouldn't have been a problem. Then again LonGisland drivers are easily the worst in the nation, what should I expect?
It is probably too late to get noticed, I think this is over 1000 posts now. Here are some books the our family has enjoyed:
---The Temeraire Series by Naomi Novik. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, with the added component of dragons makeing up the air corp. The book is very accurate to history, so they can actually learn something besides having a good fantasy read. the 5th book in the series just came out I think.
---The Mistmantle Chronicles by M I McAllister. Another talking animal book, written more towards the 8-10 year old level, but still good reads.
---The Dark is Rising series, by Susan Cooper. Arthurian legend, extended to modern times classic good vs evil story. Also any of the other books by Susan Cooper will be good.
---As cliche as they sound The Hardy Boys, and the Nancy Drew books were fun for me at that age too.
I am too lazy to post in HTML this morning so I apologize if this is harder to read.
This article, while written to be more sensational than factual does manage to touch a few important points: The earth is getting warmer. This is inarguably true, anybody who says otherwise is lying or a politician, but warming has been occurring more or less for over 10,000 years. If it were up to Al Gore, he would be telling us how he personally pushed all the glaciers, and all the ice back to the poles and saved humanity. The rates of warming and sea level rising are nothing compared with what were seen near the end of the last ice age. The second point is that anthropogenic green house gases (read CO2) are part of global warming. When a scientist uses the word significant, that rarely means "major". More often it means that the results were able to be detected by current methods. Our atmosphere is very poor in CO2, with a concentration of approximately 0.038%. There is more of the gas Argon in our atmosphere than CO2. When concentrations are that low it does not take a lot to make a measurable change.
Now from elementary school you probably remember that plants breath in CO2 and through photosynthesis make stuff that the plant can use. Since the atmosphere has only 0.038% CO2 plants are generally suffocating from a lack of CO2. If we look at the history of the earth the most productive plant growth ages had atmospheric CO2 concentration significantly higher than present levels. Very small increases of CO2 make plants more drought resistant (they don't have to breath as much so they lose less water), more productive, and able to grow in a wider range (think of CO2 as plant fertilizer). Many aquarium owners spend lots of money on complex CO2 injection systems to make their water plants grow better. An excellent documentary on this phenomenon is called "The Greening of Planet Earth", it was black listed during the Clinton years so it is hard to find in most libraries. You will probably have to ILL it.
As for sea level rises, super storms etc. Sea levels rise and fall often much faster than they do now, it is always "the worst storm since... " meaning we have had storms as bad as that before ( the most violent hurricane recorded happened during the American Revolutionary War, can really blame that one on human effects on global warming). I think Mother Earth is a much tougher woman than we give her credit for.
Your assumtion that there is a fast lane is flawed. Most states have laws saying that if you cannot travel the speed limit to avoid the left lanes. I know of no state that then designates the left lanes as the fast lanes, there is only one speed limit for the whole road. In fact, many states have regulations stating the the inner lanes of a highway, or Interstate, (read left lanes if you drive on the right side of the road) are for through traffic, meaning those who do not need to exit/enter the freeway withing a couple of exits. By moving everybody who is not merging or traveling below the speed limit into the left lanes, means that there will be more space in the right lanes for people to manoeuver around, and move on or off the Freeway. I am sure all of us have been in a traffic jam caused by people crowding into the highways. If more people moved into the left lanes to give space to those coming on or off the road, some of these traffic jams could be prevented.
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I am truly sad at this great moment in history. Farewell Discovery. You have flown well. You have carried our greatest dreams, lifted us up after tragedy, and inspired the hearts and minds of millions. Adieu. We will always remember you.
While not totally unexpected, I was a little surprised to see that Apple has dropped nVidia for AMD discrete graphics controller. I wasn't expecting to see that change for another cycle.
Like I said. Cash only is the realm of crooks and tax evaders
Thanks, You are right.
Keep Cheques. Get rid of Cash. Nothing erks me more that "cash only" establishments. If you are too cheap to buy a card reader than you should take my cheque. Cash is for crooks and tax evaders.
USAA (United Serviceman Automobile Association) is not your normal bank that has offices all over where you can make a deposit. It is a banking service available to military personnel and their dependents. It has always been set up so that servicemen deployed around the world can access their accounts. Before they wrote the iPhone app, members could scan their cheques and email them to the bank for credit, this is just an extension of that service, nothing new.
My experience has shown time and again that it is the rule breakers that start the jams. It is always with respect to a merge. Some jerk tries to get by just one more car and squeezes in at the last point forcing the cars behind him to stop so they don't hit him and voila, traffic jam. If he had just merged sooner, or followed an every other pattern there wouldn't have been a problem. Then again LonGisland drivers are easily the worst in the nation, what should I expect?
It is probably too late to get noticed, I think this is over 1000 posts now. Here are some books the our family has enjoyed: ---The Temeraire Series by Naomi Novik. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, with the added component of dragons makeing up the air corp. The book is very accurate to history, so they can actually learn something besides having a good fantasy read. the 5th book in the series just came out I think. ---The Mistmantle Chronicles by M I McAllister. Another talking animal book, written more towards the 8-10 year old level, but still good reads. ---The Dark is Rising series, by Susan Cooper. Arthurian legend, extended to modern times classic good vs evil story. Also any of the other books by Susan Cooper will be good. ---As cliche as they sound The Hardy Boys, and the Nancy Drew books were fun for me at that age too. I am too lazy to post in HTML this morning so I apologize if this is harder to read.
And there you went .... The article never said anything about global warming not happening. It is about whether or not it is a good thing.
This article, while written to be more sensational than factual does manage to touch a few important points: The earth is getting warmer. This is inarguably true, anybody who says otherwise is lying or a politician, but warming has been occurring more or less for over 10,000 years. If it were up to Al Gore, he would be telling us how he personally pushed all the glaciers, and all the ice back to the poles and saved humanity. The rates of warming and sea level rising are nothing compared with what were seen near the end of the last ice age. The second point is that anthropogenic green house gases (read CO2) are part of global warming. When a scientist uses the word significant, that rarely means "major". More often it means that the results were able to be detected by current methods. Our atmosphere is very poor in CO2, with a concentration of approximately 0.038%. There is more of the gas Argon in our atmosphere than CO2. When concentrations are that low it does not take a lot to make a measurable change.
... " meaning we have had storms as bad as that before ( the most violent hurricane recorded happened during the American Revolutionary War, can really blame that one on human effects on global warming). I think Mother Earth is a much tougher woman than we give her credit for.
Now from elementary school you probably remember that plants breath in CO2 and through photosynthesis make stuff that the plant can use. Since the atmosphere has only 0.038% CO2 plants are generally suffocating from a lack of CO2. If we look at the history of the earth the most productive plant growth ages had atmospheric CO2 concentration significantly higher than present levels. Very small increases of CO2 make plants more drought resistant (they don't have to breath as much so they lose less water), more productive, and able to grow in a wider range (think of CO2 as plant fertilizer). Many aquarium owners spend lots of money on complex CO2 injection systems to make their water plants grow better. An excellent documentary on this phenomenon is called "The Greening of Planet Earth", it was black listed during the Clinton years so it is hard to find in most libraries. You will probably have to ILL it.
As for sea level rises, super storms etc. Sea levels rise and fall often much faster than they do now, it is always "the worst storm since
Your assumtion that there is a fast lane is flawed. Most states have laws saying that if you cannot travel the speed limit to avoid the left lanes. I know of no state that then designates the left lanes as the fast lanes, there is only one speed limit for the whole road. In fact, many states have regulations stating the the inner lanes of a highway, or Interstate, (read left lanes if you drive on the right side of the road) are for through traffic, meaning those who do not need to exit/enter the freeway withing a couple of exits. By moving everybody who is not merging or traveling below the speed limit into the left lanes, means that there will be more space in the right lanes for people to manoeuver around, and move on or off the Freeway. I am sure all of us have been in a traffic jam caused by people crowding into the highways. If more people moved into the left lanes to give space to those coming on or off the road, some of these traffic jams could be prevented.