So then... tell me, which of these has a real stake in explaining how the economy actually works for the general American population?? And which of these doesn't have an incentive to make statements that keep their share price up??
Speaking as someone with an astrophysics background, I can say with great certainty that I have no idea what it is. And likely no one else will unless and until a decent spectrum of the object can be taken. Because, whereas a picture is worth a thousand words (and, if you are diligent, a light curve), a spectrum is worth a thousand pictures.
If I had to guess, I'd say it's an *extremely* distant explosion (perhaps the hypernova of low-metallicity star), based on the weird light curve and the complete lack of an associated visible parent object. But I wouldn't bet more than a beer on that hypothesis.
It didn't mention any specific products, but that's not really the point: the very personification of Microsoft (good ol' Bill) is given a soft, friendly image that will inevitably reflect onto the company and its products.
Yup, it worked gangbusters when they took that approach with the OS itself. Microsoft BOB changed the world.
...so if someone posts footage of the RNC convention on YT, would they have to remove the 9/11 "tribute" video that showed the attacks? Wouldn't that be "lib'ral censorship" of the Republicans? Or would they leave it up and be helping the terrorists?
Either way, they should remove all footage of Lieberman speeches. That man's voice is a scourge on the cause of staying awake.
Where are all of the scientifically-expert global-warming deniers ready to gainsay this discovery by the obviously-liberal elite particle physics community and their media pawns in the pocket of Big Quantum Chromodynamics?
I re-reply to your comment in a more professional tone. This time I will grade your paper as I would have one of my students responding to an AGW question on one of my exams. Ahem.
Mars: correct — atmospheric CO2 causes global warming. Your supposition between a causal link between sunspot activity and the temperature of Mars is simplistic, in light of the fact that a) the Martian orbit is highly elliptical, changing the solar input over a factor of about 1.5 over the Martian year, resulting in b) CO2 does not remain in a gaseous state over the course of this year.
Grade:
D
Jupiter's atmosphere contains almost no CO2; thus it cannot be used as a greenhouse gas. Also, Jupiter gives off twice as much energy as it receives, due to ongoing differentiation in its interior. The effects of this energy input into the atmosphere is complicated, and unlikely to causally affected by sunspot activity. Grade: F.
You attempt to prove your assertion that CO2 is not a greenhouse gas by begging the question. I've taught you better than that. Grade: F.
See you next semester. Or you could drop the class altogether and take up cleaning out horse stables. You seem familiar with the basics.
Yes I am still addicted — if by "addicted" you mean "actually fucking trained in astronomy and physics". As opposed to, say, "sock-puppet so busy grinding political axes for my team that I can't possibly acknowledge anything that counters my conservative world view."
Since you apparently have spent SO MUCH TIME studying the work of solar and planetary atmospheres scientists and have SUCH A COMMANDING GRASP of radiative transfer in fluids, please tell me: in the absence of CO2 as a greenhouse gas, why is Venus so hot? And, just to save me the trouble of writing a response to your failed guess: no, it is not the atmospheric pressure, since Venus and Earth have comparable values of that if you include the liquid oceans.
Or you could feel free to shut up on topics you do not understand. Just saying it's an option..
P.S. It may be a coincidence, it may not. It is more likely of a coincidence than is the AGW argument. Perhaps if the political offices would quit editing out those aspects of government scientific reports they don't like it would be easier to find out.
There are also a series of vodcasts produced by NASA, one of which is "The Last Mission To Hubble". To avoid igniting a platform war, I will decline to point out a piece of software that connects to an online store that carries the NASA vodcasts, but its name is vaguely self-centered and rhymes with "die Zunes".
I don't find that particular concept anywhere in the Bible, but I'm sure you know that homosexuality as a sin was definitely not invented by Paul. It's mentioned several times explicitly in the Mosaic law.
And even that was based on a transcription error. Originally in Exodus it read that God hates the gOys.
No. Cesium clocks do not keep time from the decay of the nucleus; they keep time by measuring the resonance frequency of one of its orbiting electrons.
Dude, the reason I write rude offtopic comments here is because I have to kill time at several points in the day while I wait for the Vista machine to reboot. (And, for the curious, the reason I have a computer on which to write these comments is because I brought my Mac Mini to the office. To, you know, get work done.)
Well of course Lenovo didn't have to refund the license money — everyone knows that WIndows Vista doesn't require sending Czech sums.
Nor, might I add, would they Dane to send such a refund to Northern Europe. Not a single Finn. As for Southern Europe, I would expect they would be Balkan at every request. Even in their own part of the globe I think Lenovo would claim that their hands are Thai'd. And do so Lao'd and clear.
The only people with any hope at all for satisfaction live in the Hellenic Republic. Their palms are always Greece'd.
Why does everything have to lead back to the Bush Administration. Is your (and the GP's) hatred for Bush so great that there is no room left for true tyrants?
(butts in) No — I simply have so much hatred for tyrants that I can freely spend some on our domestic tin-plated versions without significantly exhausting the supply available for the iron-fisted international crowd.
It's not like I hate Kim Jong Il less just because he's a piker compared to his daddy.
People in many western countries HAD an expectation that governments and businesses behave in a mostly honorable manner. Then they grew up. Mostly with the help of the behavior of the government and businesses. I won't bother with a list here, since someone on the opposite political side of me (responding with the usual "my team's better, rahrahrah" bullshit) will just reply with a list of "my guys" WHICH WILL JUST ADD TO THE PROOF OF MY GODDAM POINT.
Say what you want about the Chinese, though. No really, go ahead — the Chinese people don't get to. And therein lies the only real difference between us and them. For now.
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Sorry, I'm a stickler for typos.
Speaking as someone with an astrophysics background, I can say with great certainty that I have no idea what it is. And likely no one else will unless and until a decent spectrum of the object can be taken. Because, whereas a picture is worth a thousand words (and, if you are diligent, a light curve), a spectrum is worth a thousand pictures.
If I had to guess, I'd say it's an *extremely* distant explosion (perhaps the hypernova of low-metallicity star), based on the weird light curve and the complete lack of an associated visible parent object. But I wouldn't bet more than a beer on that hypothesis.
...a supposedly fun thing he'll never do again.
Fixed that for you, Kansas.
Yup, it worked gangbusters when they took that approach with the OS itself. Microsoft BOB changed the world.
...so if someone posts footage of the RNC convention on YT, would they have to remove the 9/11 "tribute" video that showed the attacks? Wouldn't that be "lib'ral censorship" of the Republicans? Or would they leave it up and be helping the terrorists?
Either way, they should remove all footage of Lieberman speeches. That man's voice is a scourge on the cause of staying awake.
Even those damn dirty furries know the score. Job-stealing polystyrenes.
I hear that Microsoft will fix all of these bugs with its next release: Mojave!
He was Bruce Campbell's literary agent. All else is epilogue.
Now go shred your cool card application — you have been pre-denied.
Where are all of the scientifically-expert global-warming deniers ready to gainsay this discovery by the obviously-liberal elite particle physics community and their media pawns in the pocket of Big Quantum Chromodynamics?
Yeah — it's mostly junk.
I re-reply to your comment in a more professional tone. This time I will grade your paper as I would have one of my students responding to an AGW question on one of my exams. Ahem.
Mars: correct — atmospheric CO2 causes global warming. Your supposition between a causal link between sunspot activity and the temperature of Mars is simplistic, in light of the fact that a) the Martian orbit is highly elliptical, changing the solar input over a factor of about 1.5 over the Martian year, resulting in b) CO2 does not remain in a gaseous state over the course of this year.
Grade: D
Jupiter's atmosphere contains almost no CO2; thus it cannot be used as a greenhouse gas. Also, Jupiter gives off twice as much energy as it receives, due to ongoing differentiation in its interior. The effects of this energy input into the atmosphere is complicated, and unlikely to causally affected by sunspot activity. Grade: F.
You attempt to prove your assertion that CO2 is not a greenhouse gas by begging the question. I've taught you better than that. Grade: F.
See you next semester. Or you could drop the class altogether and take up cleaning out horse stables. You seem familiar with the basics.
Yes I am still addicted — if by "addicted" you mean "actually fucking trained in astronomy and physics". As opposed to, say, "sock-puppet so busy grinding political axes for my team that I can't possibly acknowledge anything that counters my conservative world view."
Since you apparently have spent SO MUCH TIME studying the work of solar and planetary atmospheres scientists and have SUCH A COMMANDING GRASP of radiative transfer in fluids, please tell me: in the absence of CO2 as a greenhouse gas, why is Venus so hot? And, just to save me the trouble of writing a response to your failed guess: no, it is not the atmospheric pressure, since Venus and Earth have comparable values of that if you include the liquid oceans.
Or you could feel free to shut up on topics you do not understand. Just saying it's an option..
P.S. It may be a coincidence, it may not. It is more likely of a coincidence than is the AGW argument. Perhaps if the political offices would quit editing out those aspects of government scientific reports they don't like it would be easier to find out.
There are also a series of vodcasts produced by NASA, one of which is "The Last Mission To Hubble". To avoid igniting a platform war, I will decline to point out a piece of software that connects to an online store that carries the NASA vodcasts, but its name is vaguely self-centered and rhymes with "die Zunes".
That's because when Dick Cheney gives someone a facial it looks like this (safer for work than the imagery implied in the PP.)
And even that was based on a transcription error. Originally in Exodus it read that God hates the gOys.
No. Cesium clocks do not keep time from the decay of the nucleus; they keep time by measuring the resonance frequency of one of its orbiting electrons.
Dude, the reason I write rude offtopic comments here is because I have to kill time at several points in the day while I wait for the Vista machine to reboot. (And, for the curious, the reason I have a computer on which to write these comments is because I brought my Mac Mini to the office. To, you know, get work done.)
Well of course Lenovo didn't have to refund the license money — everyone knows that WIndows Vista doesn't require sending Czech sums.
Nor, might I add, would they Dane to send such a refund to Northern Europe. Not a single Finn. As for Southern Europe, I would expect they would be Balkan at every request. Even in their own part of the globe I think Lenovo would claim that their hands are Thai'd. And do so Lao'd and clear.
The only people with any hope at all for satisfaction live in the Hellenic Republic. Their palms are always Greece'd.
Screw Kerrigan — consider what she did to Jennings.
Clearly we have not worked with the same physicists. Maybe you meant 'physical therapists'?
(butts in) No — I simply have so much hatred for tyrants that I can freely spend some on our domestic tin-plated versions without significantly exhausting the supply available for the iron-fisted international crowd.
It's not like I hate Kim Jong Il less just because he's a piker compared to his daddy.
My god, man! We're trying to have a language flamewar here — let's not get distracted by vi-vs-emacs.
People in many western countries HAD an expectation that governments and businesses behave in a mostly honorable manner. Then they grew up. Mostly with the help of the behavior of the government and businesses. I won't bother with a list here, since someone on the opposite political side of me (responding with the usual "my team's better, rahrahrah" bullshit) will just reply with a list of "my guys" WHICH WILL JUST ADD TO THE PROOF OF MY GODDAM POINT.
Say what you want about the Chinese, though. No really, go ahead — the Chinese people don't get to. And therein lies the only real difference between us and them. For now.
The parent post is a perfect example of why, for the sake of my own sanity (and liver), I had to stop teaching science in college.
P.S. It's "lose", not "loose". And that's why I never even considered a career teaching English in college.