Why wouldn't these reports be available under FOIA? Considering that its "nominally public domain" already, what exemption would it fall under to bar a request?
You have to know they exist before you can file a FOIA request.
"Sustainable" isn't ill-defined, it's clearly defined every English dictionary and it is in the dictionary sense that the word is used in the environmental debate. Something is sustainable if it can continue indefinitely - energy sources which won't run out before the end of the world, for example.
It's not sustainable if it doesn't work into eternity. I want to out live the planet darn it!
They should seriously have some damn tiered pricing for limited resources like electricity and water. I mean, if I use an extra 20 gallons one month, no big whoop - the guy down the street that waters his lawn every fucking day needs to be paying more for that crap though. Tiered pricing is the only economical way to make people conserve in a meaningful way.
Water isn't really a limited resource.
Especially if your just watering with it and not drinking it.
calling skeptics "deniers" is like something out of the salem witch trials.
People who deny are deniers, just like people who swim are swimmers, and people who count are counters. This is the way the English language forms nouns.
Is English not your native language?
....and people who troll are trollers......no wait they're just trolls. The english language threw me a cruve ball there.
a) The cost of "doing something" isn't very much (in reality it's more more voter-annoying than monetary - drive lighter cars, buy local produce, eat less meat, don't produce so much trash, turn off unneeded lights, stuff like that).
And that:
b) If Antarctic/Greenland melts the entire world will collapse into "every man for himself".
Then... I think maybe we ought to do something. Just in case.
If we did this and it didn't stop global warmming the effects would be:
A.) Trashed econmomy.
B.) No muiltray budget when the war starts.
C.) China conquers the world.(Hey with their lack of enviromental concern they could afford it)
Lethal injection is considered humane because no pain is felt.
Civilized societies have long moved towards executions that are as respectful of life as possible, as opposed to some societies which still publicly rape and stone to death.
It's the same idea about those who abuse animals end up abusing humans, and lethal injection, which is very nonviolent, is one of the better ways to separate the death penalty from murder.
Several bullets to the head is painless too.
Less painful actually. You don't have to feel the needle prick your skin.
That map is pretty much useless. I looked at it, and there are tiny yellow spots in my state of Oregon, as well as every other state. Unfortunately, the cities are not marked, so I can't tell if those yellow spots cover my city or not. Fail.
I found it usefull. No yellow in SC.
I'm going to go cry in a corner now.
Speakeasy offers a product called "OneLink DSL" which provides up to 6 Mbps on a dedicated data line, and doesn't require phone service. Plans start at $55.95/month, and include a static IP. If you go with their "OneLink SelectPlus" plans, 4 static IPs are provided. All plans have up to 768 Kbps upstream, depending on which one you choose. There are options out there.
Not in my town apprently.
I just checked their site and they're not availible in my area:(
I had to go to the website's ISP, get the webpage on paper tape, take it back to the computer room, type in the binary codes using only the 1's and 0's on a teletype machine and then read the content from the blinking lights on the front of a PDP-8/E. And when we were finished, the sysadmin would kill us and dance on our graves singing Hallelujah.
Luxury...in my day you never could find a sysadmin who could carry a tune, never mind dance. You had graves? We didn't have the money for fancy stone markers. You'd be lucky if they threw your corpse into an open pit. Mind you we we're happier back then.
How the hell did this get modded informative? Regardless of how effective "modern education" (as a monolithic entity) is, it certainly is worth more than words on a resume.
If it's not effective, why is it worth anything beyond the resume?
Welcome to Slashdot, where intellectual achievement is simply the feeling of superiority you get from knowing more about computers than most people care to.
or anime, or video games.
Really it could be anything, computer aren't
actually necessary.
[1]: Alas, I've got a quasi-IT job in small business that isn't going anywhere. I'm a bit of a generalist, with skills ranging from technical support to systems administration to tower climbing to cable-pulling monkey to systems integrator and troubleshooter supreme, working in public safety wireless communications and internal support. For the past year or so, I've done everything from just show up when I feel like to being totally AWOL, due to a number of personal, psychological, and financial issues that my employer isn't exactly aware of. I yell at my coworkers when they do stupid things. I'm a bad employee. I've cost the company a lot of money in the past 12 months, but they keep telling me that I'm an asset that the company needs. OTOH, we're having our best year ever. My Christmas bonus hasn't gone down a bit. I guess I'm lucky -- somehow, I think that if I were anyone else at any other company, I'd have been let go years ago.
Shhhh....don't go telling people, who are better qualified than us, that working for a small business is the holy grail of the IT world. People like us won't be able to compete.
I don't think this is going to work because although these people are the top in their fields, it doesn't make them good teachers, which is important if you're paying $25,000 for a 10 day course.
It will work because it looks great on a resume which is all modern education is good for anyway.
I don't play video games and my reaction is the same: "kill Jack!" I do like to play chess though. And I like to eat potato chips as well. Still can't decide if it's playing chess or eating potato chips that causes me to have that reaction? Hmmm, something to think about (if you are or should be in a mental institution).
Chess was the murder simulator that introduced kings to killing scenarios and casued the crusades.
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Why wouldn't these reports be available under FOIA? Considering that its "nominally public domain" already, what exemption would it fall under to bar a request?
You have to know they exist before you can file a FOIA request.
...China and India would easily take our 75% of energy.
Let them have it. It is against each other they will then fight between when energy becomes scarce, while the US will have learned to live frugally.
And when their well funded and enviromentally unfriendly militray comes to our door?
The last few grams of silicon?
Do you know that silicon is as plentiful as the sands of the desert?
Which are getting bigger......see desertification is a good thing.
"Sustainable" isn't ill-defined, it's clearly defined every English dictionary and it is in the dictionary sense that the word is used in the environmental debate. Something is sustainable if it can continue indefinitely - energy sources which won't run out before the end of the world, for example.
It's not sustainable if it doesn't work into eternity. I want to out live the planet darn it!
Don't run your Tesla coil when you aren't at home.
But it's tied into my security system....
They should seriously have some damn tiered pricing for limited resources like electricity and water. I mean, if I use an extra 20 gallons one month, no big whoop - the guy down the street that waters his lawn every fucking day needs to be paying more for that crap though. Tiered pricing is the only economical way to make people conserve in a meaningful way.
Water isn't really a limited resource. Especially if your just watering with it and not drinking it.
calling skeptics "deniers" is like something out of the salem witch trials.
People who deny are deniers, just like people who swim are swimmers, and people who count are counters. This is the way the English language forms nouns.
Is English not your native language?
....and people who troll are trollers......no wait they're just trolls. The english language threw me a cruve ball there.
Given that:
a) The cost of "doing something" isn't very much (in reality it's more more voter-annoying than monetary - drive lighter cars, buy local produce, eat less meat, don't produce so much trash, turn off unneeded lights, stuff like that).
And that:
b) If Antarctic/Greenland melts the entire world will collapse into "every man for himself".
Then ... I think maybe we ought to do something. Just in case.
If we did this and it didn't stop global warmming the effects would be:
A.) Trashed econmomy.
B.) No muiltray budget when the war starts.
C.) China conquers the world.(Hey with their lack of enviromental concern they could afford it)
I know it's not manly and tough but...
Lethal injection is considered humane because no pain is felt.
Civilized societies have long moved towards executions that are as respectful of life as possible, as opposed to some societies which still publicly rape and stone to death.
It's the same idea about those who abuse animals end up abusing humans, and lethal injection, which is very nonviolent, is one of the better ways to separate the death penalty from murder.
Several bullets to the head is painless too. Less painful actually. You don't have to feel the needle prick your skin.
Could anyone please find some logic in this?
It's business logic...also known as non-logic.....also known as stupidity.
Your attitude to women as property may be the reason you're looking for sloppy seconds ;)
Nah...he's just ugly.
That map is pretty much useless. I looked at it, and there are tiny yellow spots in my state of Oregon, as well as every other state. Unfortunately, the cities are not marked, so I can't tell if those yellow spots cover my city or not. Fail.
I found it usefull. No yellow in SC.
I'm going to go cry in a corner now.
Speakeasy offers a product called "OneLink DSL" which provides up to 6 Mbps on a dedicated data line, and doesn't require phone service. Plans start at $55.95/month, and include a static IP. If you go with their "OneLink SelectPlus" plans, 4 static IPs are provided. All plans have up to 768 Kbps upstream, depending on which one you choose. There are options out there.
Not in my town apprently. I just checked their site and they're not availible in my area :(
I'm already off your lawn.
Lawns?...Luxury... in my day we didn't have lawns. A dead peice of grass sitting in a cracked pot was all you could expect.
Right.
I had to go to the website's ISP, get the webpage on paper tape, take it back to the computer room, type in the binary codes using only the 1's and 0's on a teletype machine and then read the content from the blinking lights on the front of a PDP-8/E. And when we were finished, the sysadmin would kill us and dance on our graves singing Hallelujah.
Luxury...in my day you never could find a sysadmin who could carry a tune, never mind dance. You had graves? We didn't have the money for fancy stone markers. You'd be lucky if they threw your corpse into an open pit. Mind you we we're happier back then.
Mosaic? Are you kidding?
The only browser that should be allowed is Lynx!!
Luxury....in my day we had to use wget and parse the html with vi.
How the hell did this get modded informative? Regardless of how effective "modern education" (as a monolithic entity) is, it certainly is worth more than words on a resume.
If it's not effective, why is it worth anything beyond the resume?
Doesn't "necessarily have to"? It is the president's job to do what congress says, not the other way around.
I'm pretty sure it doesn't work either direction.
The reason for the date change: a bunch of elderly and poor TV viewers are confused about the switchover.
The result: now everyone is confused.
Hooray for equality!
Welcome to Slashdot, where intellectual achievement is simply the feeling of superiority you get from knowing more about computers than most people care to.
or anime, or video games.
Really it could be anything, computer aren't actually necessary.
[1]: Alas, I've got a quasi-IT job in small business that isn't going anywhere. I'm a bit of a generalist, with skills ranging from technical support to systems administration to tower climbing to cable-pulling monkey to systems integrator and troubleshooter supreme, working in public safety wireless communications and internal support. For the past year or so, I've done everything from just show up when I feel like to being totally AWOL, due to a number of personal, psychological, and financial issues that my employer isn't exactly aware of. I yell at my coworkers when they do stupid things. I'm a bad employee. I've cost the company a lot of money in the past 12 months, but they keep telling me that I'm an asset that the company needs. OTOH, we're having our best year ever. My Christmas bonus hasn't gone down a bit. I guess I'm lucky -- somehow, I think that if I were anyone else at any other company, I'd have been let go years ago.
Shhhh....don't go telling people, who are better qualified than us, that working for a small business is the holy grail of the IT world. People like us won't be able to compete.
Nope, I used my "bishop".
So you came at her from an angle?
I don't think this is going to work because although these people are the top in their fields, it doesn't make them good teachers, which is important if you're paying $25,000 for a 10 day course.
It will work because it looks great on a resume which is all modern education is good for anyway.
And somewhere in that mess, someone was enjoying some porno only to have their fantasy broken by the defensive line of the Cardinals.
Some people are in to that.
I don't play video games and my reaction is the same: "kill Jack!" I do like to play chess though. And I like to eat potato chips as well. Still can't decide if it's playing chess or eating potato chips that causes me to have that reaction? Hmmm, something to think about (if you are or should be in a mental institution).
Chess was the murder simulator that introduced kings to killing scenarios and casued the crusades.