taking disputed intelligence, not checking out the dispute anywhere nearly seriously enough, and then using the most favorable possible interpretation to theri desire to take us to war, and lying by saying it was undisputed fact, WHEN THEY KNEW ABOUT THE DISPUTES.
Not for not takign intel seriously enough.
One, we not only withdrew from the 'protocol' (the treaty) we withdrew from the negotiating body that is still working to define future 'protocols.' I said that in my post; we withdrew from the PROCESS. We withdrew from having input into future proposed treaties.
Two, on a per capita basis (or national basis, for that matter), the US emits MUCH more carbon than China and India. They were exempt precisely because their per capita emmissions are relatively very low compared to ours. The opposition was because it targeted the US as the major emitter of carbon, and that would hurt our economy.
The Kyoto treaty was flawed, and could not have been ratified. But the process for modifying that, and working toward a more palatable treaty was extant, and Bush withdrew from THAT.
Over the last century, we have increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations by some 30%. And we were already at or very near a global maximum for concentration, for the period of he last 420,000 years, before we created that 30% increase.
in atmospheric CO2, which has been moving up and down within a reasonably narrow range of concentrations for the last 420,000 years. With tempsrature also cycling, in very tight lockstep with CO2 concentrations
Our current inter-glacial period has been occuring with CO2 levels running right at the highest concentrations ever observed in the last 420,000 years.
Our massive input of anthropogenic CO2 has been ON TOP OF that natural local high, and has pushed us some 30% above the highest levels ever observed over that 420,000 year period.
Yes, earth;s climate changes naturally. And we are pushing it into regimes OUTSIDE the range of natural variation, based on 420,000 years of observations.
Google for ice core climate data if you doubt the time period, by the way.
What people forget is that Bush didn't just withdraw us from this specific Kyoto treaty. He withdrew us from the Kyoto process, so that we arent involved in ongoing treaty negotiations regarding carb on emissions.
Which is why thaey cn predit increased intensity of hurrricanes (largely climate-induced) but not frequency (much more dependent on imeidate weather events).
and geologic vs historic time.
There are "natural" (non-human) processes that both release and sequester CO2. Volcanos are part of those natural processes. Because they are discrete events, they have short-term effects and create small spikes in atmospheric carbon (and other gasses), but over time (decades, centuries) they average well enough that they are simply part of the natural equilibrium. That equilibrium has been relatively constant(within about 50 ppm? if I remember right) over the last 400,000 or so years.
Human activity is taking carbon that was sesuestered over gelogical time, tens of millions of years of time, that time being up to 100 million or so years ago, and sequestered from an atmosphere that was significantly richer in carbon that ours is... and we are releasing significant parts of that sequestered carbon in HISTORIC time, over a century or two, and THAT is significantly raising the equibilibrium carbon concentration in the atmosphere.
Most people infected with West Nile, it seems, dont know they are sick. They might have a slight cold for a bit. some get very, very sick, and die.
But a significant portion even of the young and healthy get serious, debilitating, flu-like symptoms that can last for weeks.
My cousin is case 4 in Tehama County, California, this summer. She first went into the hospital about 3 1/2 weeks ago, is home now, but is STILL feverish, week, achy, head-throbbing headache, and describing it as like having a serious flu.. which has now lasted 3 1/2 weeks, unabated.
She is in her 30s, healthy as a (irony only partially intended) horse, has not missed a day of work for illness in the previous decade.
West Nile shouldn't panic us, be we DAMN SURE should be taking it seriously. All of us.
all the rest of those ads wouldnt be affected.
But I'mnto sure it woud be imediately scalable to other cities. In the bay area, CL is THE most efficient job listing forum, by far. In other cities that may not be true, so the incentive to pay for a job listing might not be there.
Microsoft managed to leverage a fortune out of the IBM deal, because Microsoft OWNED the OS.
If Sun bought Novell, that would cause maybe a year of disruption before IBM pushed another company into the Novell position, or took over that position themselves. With Linux under the GPL, there is no way to lock others out of the OS market space, so there is no way to leverage the OS market space to be able to control the technology.
Goodbye to a truly great man.
I met Dr. Crick twice. He was the only scientist I ever met who awed me so completely that I could never call him by his given name.
Dr. Crick was involved in essentially every major breakthrough in molecular genetics between about 1955 and the end of the '60s. The structure of DNA, the "Central Dogma," triplet coding, as a very few high points among the accomplishments where his work was central. If you read "The Eighth Day of Creation," the breathtaking history of molecular genetics, you find that for those years it is largely a history of the work of Francis Crick.
Following that, he nearly invented the new field of the analysis of the biological correlates fo consciousness.
Truly a giant of intellectual achievement, I consider him one of the 5 greatest scientists to have ever lived.
He was also a truly generous spirit. Both times I talked with him, he took a genuine interest in my work, discussed in detail my problem, and my experiments, and made serious and thoughtful comments on what I was doing. He didnt have to; I was a graduate student grinding away at what at that time looked like an obscure backwater project.
He will be missed. I for one will be hoisting a couple in his honor over the next few days.
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It is important to use the proper technical language, so as not to confuse the users. We don't want them sticking their fists through their monitors, do we?
of the hearing:
"All other claims were dismissed and she acknowledged that the contract doesn't require certifications that are outside the language of the contract."
Assuming that is an accurate acountof Judge Chabot's ruling, it utterly eviscerates everything SCO hoped for from every single one of those letters they sent.
Section 2.05, by this ruling, ONLY requires a lsit of CPUs on which SCO softwares is running, and nothing more. SCO can not use that clause to go fishing for Linux or other activities.
This of course is not binding in other courts, but you can bet it will be a centerpiece in the arguments in any other court where SCO might try this scam again.
If the design life is 90 days, and you design for 115, and you miss miss and only get 60, the project fails in many of its requirements. And it's not like you can go to the corner store and get a replacement part.
This isnt like a light bulb, where if your 2000 hour bulbs last an average of 2005 hours, you are ok.. even if some of 'em only last 800 hours. This ONE has to last at least 90 days. Period.
If your mandate is to guarantee a very high probability of a 90 day life, it isnt at all unreasonable that if things dont go wrong, you can get 4-5 times that.
Sorry, but I don't want my 10 year old daughter to be seeing pictues of violent and abusive sex, whether staged or not. Neither will I want my son to do, when he gets old enoughj to staart using the computer.
Not to mention the many sites of brutal, if putatively consensual, abuse of women that are also out there. At ten, she is NOT ready to see pictures of women beaten bloody, being pissed and shat upon, and enduring mutilation of tits and genitals. Hell, I'm in my 40's and some of that shit is hard for ME to dismiss from my mind if/when I see it.
Turning a child loose on the internet without supervision, is the psychic equivalent of sending them out to play on the freeway, without even giving them Safety Orange vests to wear.
A few months back, I walked behind my daughter while she was on the 'puter, which is in a public room, and caught her quickly hiding a page and looking quite embarrassed. Which is a no-no in our house, at least for 9 year old kids on the internet (the hiding the page part, not the embarassment part; she's at an age where I embarrass her simply by existing, so there isnt much I can do about that part).
So I called her on it, and she sheepishly and with much embarrassment opened the vid she had just downloaded, of a certain famous-for-being-famous daughter of a large hotel chain. Just about at the part where Paris answers the cell phone.
So we had a short conversation about rules of engagement on the internet, and arrived at a suitable punishment for her having violating those rules. And then we agreed that, given that she had alread seen some of this and was confused by it, that she could watch the entire thing, with her mother to provided necessary explanation and context. Not me; if y'all think I'm gonna watch that shit with my 9-year-old daughter, you're sick! It triggered a solid conversation between them about self-respect, about making decisions and being able to say no, and when it might be right to say yes, and privacy, and what was wrong about what Paris' boyfriend did, and on and on. She still thought it was **really gross**, although she allowed as how it was potentially possible that some day she might be grown up, and grown ups seem to like doing that stuff, so she ahd to admit the possibility that soome day SHE migh tlike doing that stuff. But its so GROSS, and no way, not her, ever! Which, BTW, is just fine with me. The never part, I mean. She IS my daughter.
Anyway, **that** shit don't worry me. Sex is sex, and it can be discussed and dealt with.
What wories me as a parent is that its easy for an email account to become a conduit for sex, sex, and more sex, leaving the impression that sex is what being an adult is all about. So I filter her email. But she's just about old enough to want some privacy in her communications with her firends (just about? Hell, she's there!) so this solution is failing.
What worries me is that two clicks from the site where she found the Hilton video are sites showing women being beaten bloody and raped and tortured and their tits and genitals mutilated. Or sites showing violent death, accidental and otherwise. Those sites I do NOT want her to see. Most emphatically not. Not until she is a whole lot more grown up than she is now, at least.
But I also believe wholeheartedly in the broadest necessity of the freedom of expression. I am against COPA, on every point. But damn it, I need help. I cant hover over her every minute of her day. I cant continue to monitor her exchanges with her friends on email. I **cant** assume that she wont make those two clicks to something like TortureGalaxy. She's old enough to need the freedom to do things, some things, on her own. But the spillover into that necessary zone of privacy that she deserves and needs, of stuff clearly outside what she can handle, is a serious, difficult, and dangerous issue.
I'm investigating tech solutions, but those seem to censor places I DO want her to be able to access. So what am I, as in involved, caring, and active parent, going to do? That's a real question, by the way. I don't yet know the answer, or if there IS an answer.
My wife used to write marketing copy for BRIEF, after it was bought by The Programmers Shop, and before TPG went bust. A relatively brief interval, actually.
under the Yucatan as well as a small mountain of additional confirmatory evidence.
Its been what, 2 decades, since Alvarez proposed this as a hypothesis? A lot more has happened in that time than just peopls sitting around saying, "well, isnt that elegant."
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Seems simple enough to just shift into neutral and let the engine blow. Unless I'm missing something.
They said there was no question. That is what THEY saaid. Nto strong, not pretty good, not a mjority of the evidence... they said NO QUESTION.
taking disputed intelligence, not checking out the dispute anywhere nearly seriously enough, and then using the most favorable possible interpretation to theri desire to take us to war, and lying by saying it was undisputed fact, WHEN THEY KNEW ABOUT THE DISPUTES. Not for not takign intel seriously enough.
is lying.
One, we not only withdrew from the 'protocol' (the treaty) we withdrew from the negotiating body that is still working to define future 'protocols.' I said that in my post; we withdrew from the PROCESS. We withdrew from having input into future proposed treaties. Two, on a per capita basis (or national basis, for that matter), the US emits MUCH more carbon than China and India. They were exempt precisely because their per capita emmissions are relatively very low compared to ours. The opposition was because it targeted the US as the major emitter of carbon, and that would hurt our economy. The Kyoto treaty was flawed, and could not have been ratified. But the process for modifying that, and working toward a more palatable treaty was extant, and Bush withdrew from THAT.
Over the last century, we have increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations by some 30%. And we were already at or very near a global maximum for concentration, for the period of he last 420,000 years, before we created that 30% increase.
in atmospheric CO2, which has been moving up and down within a reasonably narrow range of concentrations for the last 420,000 years. With tempsrature also cycling, in very tight lockstep with CO2 concentrations Our current inter-glacial period has been occuring with CO2 levels running right at the highest concentrations ever observed in the last 420,000 years. Our massive input of anthropogenic CO2 has been ON TOP OF that natural local high, and has pushed us some 30% above the highest levels ever observed over that 420,000 year period. Yes, earth;s climate changes naturally. And we are pushing it into regimes OUTSIDE the range of natural variation, based on 420,000 years of observations. Google for ice core climate data if you doubt the time period, by the way.
What people forget is that Bush didn't just withdraw us from this specific Kyoto treaty. He withdrew us from the Kyoto process, so that we arent involved in ongoing treaty negotiations regarding carb on emissions.
Which is why thaey cn predit increased intensity of hurrricanes (largely climate-induced) but not frequency (much more dependent on imeidate weather events).
and geologic vs historic time. There are "natural" (non-human) processes that both release and sequester CO2. Volcanos are part of those natural processes. Because they are discrete events, they have short-term effects and create small spikes in atmospheric carbon (and other gasses), but over time (decades, centuries) they average well enough that they are simply part of the natural equilibrium. That equilibrium has been relatively constant(within about 50 ppm? if I remember right) over the last 400,000 or so years. Human activity is taking carbon that was sesuestered over gelogical time, tens of millions of years of time, that time being up to 100 million or so years ago, and sequestered from an atmosphere that was significantly richer in carbon that ours is... and we are releasing significant parts of that sequestered carbon in HISTORIC time, over a century or two, and THAT is significantly raising the equibilibrium carbon concentration in the atmosphere.
Most people infected with West Nile, it seems, dont know they are sick. They might have a slight cold for a bit. some get very, very sick, and die. But a significant portion even of the young and healthy get serious, debilitating, flu-like symptoms that can last for weeks. My cousin is case 4 in Tehama County, California, this summer. She first went into the hospital about 3 1/2 weeks ago, is home now, but is STILL feverish, week, achy, head-throbbing headache, and describing it as like having a serious flu.. which has now lasted 3 1/2 weeks, unabated. She is in her 30s, healthy as a (irony only partially intended) horse, has not missed a day of work for illness in the previous decade. West Nile shouldn't panic us, be we DAMN SURE should be taking it seriously. All of us.
you shouldn't be out there.
all the rest of those ads wouldnt be affected. But I'mnto sure it woud be imediately scalable to other cities. In the bay area, CL is THE most efficient job listing forum, by far. In other cities that may not be true, so the incentive to pay for a job listing might not be there.
Microsoft managed to leverage a fortune out of the IBM deal, because Microsoft OWNED the OS. If Sun bought Novell, that would cause maybe a year of disruption before IBM pushed another company into the Novell position, or took over that position themselves. With Linux under the GPL, there is no way to lock others out of the OS market space, so there is no way to leverage the OS market space to be able to control the technology.
Goodbye to a truly great man. I met Dr. Crick twice. He was the only scientist I ever met who awed me so completely that I could never call him by his given name. Dr. Crick was involved in essentially every major breakthrough in molecular genetics between about 1955 and the end of the '60s. The structure of DNA, the "Central Dogma," triplet coding, as a very few high points among the accomplishments where his work was central. If you read "The Eighth Day of Creation," the breathtaking history of molecular genetics, you find that for those years it is largely a history of the work of Francis Crick. Following that, he nearly invented the new field of the analysis of the biological correlates fo consciousness. Truly a giant of intellectual achievement, I consider him one of the 5 greatest scientists to have ever lived. He was also a truly generous spirit. Both times I talked with him, he took a genuine interest in my work, discussed in detail my problem, and my experiments, and made serious and thoughtful comments on what I was doing. He didnt have to; I was a graduate student grinding away at what at that time looked like an obscure backwater project. He will be missed. I for one will be hoisting a couple in his honor over the next few days.
Step Two: **Click** enter. It is important to use the proper technical language, so as not to confuse the users. We don't want them sticking their fists through their monitors, do we?
of the hearing: "All other claims were dismissed and she acknowledged that the contract doesn't require certifications that are outside the language of the contract." Assuming that is an accurate acountof Judge Chabot's ruling, it utterly eviscerates everything SCO hoped for from every single one of those letters they sent. Section 2.05, by this ruling, ONLY requires a lsit of CPUs on which SCO softwares is running, and nothing more. SCO can not use that clause to go fishing for Linux or other activities. This of course is not binding in other courts, but you can bet it will be a centerpiece in the arguments in any other court where SCO might try this scam again.
Clearly, had she been in charge, there would have been no run on the bank. Given especially that she is practically perfect in every way.
If the design life is 90 days, and you design for 115, and you miss miss and only get 60, the project fails in many of its requirements. And it's not like you can go to the corner store and get a replacement part. This isnt like a light bulb, where if your 2000 hour bulbs last an average of 2005 hours, you are ok.. even if some of 'em only last 800 hours. This ONE has to last at least 90 days. Period. If your mandate is to guarantee a very high probability of a 90 day life, it isnt at all unreasonable that if things dont go wrong, you can get 4-5 times that.
I could swear I replied to the 'bangbus is a work of genius' post just below.
Sorry, but I don't want my 10 year old daughter to be seeing pictues of violent and abusive sex, whether staged or not. Neither will I want my son to do, when he gets old enoughj to staart using the computer. Not to mention the many sites of brutal, if putatively consensual, abuse of women that are also out there. At ten, she is NOT ready to see pictures of women beaten bloody, being pissed and shat upon, and enduring mutilation of tits and genitals. Hell, I'm in my 40's and some of that shit is hard for ME to dismiss from my mind if/when I see it. Turning a child loose on the internet without supervision, is the psychic equivalent of sending them out to play on the freeway, without even giving them Safety Orange vests to wear.
A few months back, I walked behind my daughter while she was on the 'puter, which is in a public room, and caught her quickly hiding a page and looking quite embarrassed. Which is a no-no in our house, at least for 9 year old kids on the internet (the hiding the page part, not the embarassment part; she's at an age where I embarrass her simply by existing, so there isnt much I can do about that part). So I called her on it, and she sheepishly and with much embarrassment opened the vid she had just downloaded, of a certain famous-for-being-famous daughter of a large hotel chain. Just about at the part where Paris answers the cell phone. So we had a short conversation about rules of engagement on the internet, and arrived at a suitable punishment for her having violating those rules. And then we agreed that, given that she had alread seen some of this and was confused by it, that she could watch the entire thing, with her mother to provided necessary explanation and context. Not me; if y'all think I'm gonna watch that shit with my 9-year-old daughter, you're sick! It triggered a solid conversation between them about self-respect, about making decisions and being able to say no, and when it might be right to say yes, and privacy, and what was wrong about what Paris' boyfriend did, and on and on. She still thought it was **really gross**, although she allowed as how it was potentially possible that some day she might be grown up, and grown ups seem to like doing that stuff, so she ahd to admit the possibility that soome day SHE migh tlike doing that stuff. But its so GROSS, and no way, not her, ever! Which, BTW, is just fine with me. The never part, I mean. She IS my daughter. Anyway, **that** shit don't worry me. Sex is sex, and it can be discussed and dealt with. What wories me as a parent is that its easy for an email account to become a conduit for sex, sex, and more sex, leaving the impression that sex is what being an adult is all about. So I filter her email. But she's just about old enough to want some privacy in her communications with her firends (just about? Hell, she's there!) so this solution is failing. What worries me is that two clicks from the site where she found the Hilton video are sites showing women being beaten bloody and raped and tortured and their tits and genitals mutilated. Or sites showing violent death, accidental and otherwise. Those sites I do NOT want her to see. Most emphatically not. Not until she is a whole lot more grown up than she is now, at least. But I also believe wholeheartedly in the broadest necessity of the freedom of expression. I am against COPA, on every point. But damn it, I need help. I cant hover over her every minute of her day. I cant continue to monitor her exchanges with her friends on email. I **cant** assume that she wont make those two clicks to something like TortureGalaxy. She's old enough to need the freedom to do things, some things, on her own. But the spillover into that necessary zone of privacy that she deserves and needs, of stuff clearly outside what she can handle, is a serious, difficult, and dangerous issue. I'm investigating tech solutions, but those seem to censor places I DO want her to be able to access. So what am I, as in involved, caring, and active parent, going to do? That's a real question, by the way. I don't yet know the answer, or if there IS an answer.
My wife used to write marketing copy for BRIEF, after it was bought by The Programmers Shop, and before TPG went bust. A relatively brief interval, actually.
The rest is in very iffy common stock, which they cant sell in any kind of volume without reducing its value to nearly nil.
under the Yucatan as well as a small mountain of additional confirmatory evidence. Its been what, 2 decades, since Alvarez proposed this as a hypothesis? A lot more has happened in that time than just peopls sitting around saying, "well, isnt that elegant."