Oh, goodness, you pick the hottest year in history and when the next few years don't **quite** equal that extreme point confidently declare that the entire century and a half observed warming trend is invalid? Really? Look up 'statistical outliers' and try to comprehend the concept and then get back to us. By the way, 2014 is now the hottest year on record, you're going to have to reset your talking point.
still do not completely understand all of them
They've been studying and modeling the electron for over a century and still do not understand everything about it, either. That doesn't stop us from using them to operate these magical boxes that we communicate with.
The Doctrine of Papal Infallibility originated in the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century. Before that the pope was just a man. A very powerful man, but not the font of god's direct word.
For all reasonable considerations our atmosphere is in fact a closed system, and what does escape can be quantified. Gravity and the magnetosphere keep escaping gasses to a minimum. Albedo varies over time but is measurable to within a remarkable number of decimal points by satellite. Anything that is not reflected is absorbed, either by the atmosphere itself or by the water and land below it. Re-radiation is also measured by those same satellites.
Of course other climate events affect overall global temperatures, and of course there are other 'forcings' at work. My 4th grade niece would set her hands on her hips, look at you, and say, "Duh!" Are you of the rather absurd opinion that the models that people have labored over refining for decades don't attempt to include them? I would highly recommend that you look at a few of them, you will be surprised at the work that goes into the process of modeling (I know I was).
Land clearing? Where? Every renewable energy installation that I have ever seen except hydro has been sited in already open land. Even in northern Michigan the wind farms are located on existing farmland, the farmers just plow around the foundation of the thing and continue on their merry way. The best sites are areas that are already bare because of local weather and other environmental conditions, and you will probably be shocked to find that those are the primary places that they are located.
You really think that it's better for a Third World country to have to buy coal from the US or Australia until the end of time, rather than have a power source that will need no imports for the next two decades? You don't work for the World Bank or IMF by chance, do you?
In the case of the above poster, I don't think he's bright enough to figure out how to create a user account. Most of the time it seems to be people who are too cowardly to have their name associated with their beliefs. Several times Mr. AC has told me that I was stupid for posting something that can easily be tracked back to my actual name because future employers might take umbrage. (My reply has always been that I wouldn't have wanted to work for people like that anyway.) It's typical of the breakdown of the whole online forum format though, which is too bad because it's my favorite type of online discussion.
I take it you never flew before deregulation, when there were a lot more airlines offering a lot more service with better seats and no additional fees. Ronnie Raygun has a lot to pay for down there in Hell, and the "government is the problem" meme is one of the big ones. Hope he's getting raped hourly with a porcupine.
A lot of airlines would show a profit if the CEO and his flunkies didn't suck a quarter billion dollars a year out of them. Executive pay in the US is absolutely out of hand, and many, many companies are run in a manner that makes it obvious that their only function is to feed the execs' bank accounts.
I'd be surprised if they don't ship out big pile of bits for rendering on the AWS/Google/MS clouds, since it's so much cheaper than buying dedicated CPUs that will then sit unused until the next batch of rendering needs to be done. Much of the original Star Wars movies were actually rendered after hours on servers at Informix and ARC GIS networks, so it's nothing new.
If North Korea came to America to "liberate" us from our government
Amusingly enough that's the plot to the recent remake of 'Red Dawn'. You really must watch it if you like bad movies, it makes Ron Jeremy's vampire movie look like high art in comparison.
Cool, thanks for that. I knew they existed but had never actually had the chance to read them. Interesting that they wanted to use the Soviets as a go-between.
Probably can't read a map either. I'm amazed at the number of people who can't, even those who grew up before the GPS era. I've worked with people who couldn't stand on the corner of NE 10th Street and 5th Avenue SE and know which way to go to get to NE 18th St and 20th Ave NE. It just astounds me.
The fun of shopping??? The only think that I find fun about shopping is when I have figured out how to get out of doing it. When our nieces were still in town Rosa would go with them and I didn't have to deal with it often, but now they've moved.
That's the difference between mall-located and non-mall Radio Shacks. Go into the Radio Shack in the local mall and they'll have cell phones, HDMI cables, and not much else. Just as well, no one in that store would know what a serial cable or a resistor was.
Not many fish live-birth, you would need a male to fertilize those eggs. Normally the fertilized eggs are carried on plant matter stuck to ducks, or occasionally the eggs stick to the birds themselves.
Has the situation of any native species ever improved because of the magical market forces? Ever? I can't think of one. Buffalo, beavers, wolves, condors, redwoods, otters, etc. would all be extinct if the top-down management had allowed "actors look out for their own interests". Individual people are myopic short-term actors, only when we band into larger organizations is anything worthwhile ever accomplished.
Carp and suckers are fairly fatty fish, you don't want to fry or bake them really. They're OK grilled, but they're outstanding in a smoker. The fat drips down and burns and everyone in the neighborhood knows that something delicious is about to be available. You may become very popular for an afternoon . . .
Not even Einstein would have claimed that. We have barely crossed the heliopause, and you can claim that we know that physics works exactly the same everywhere? (I'm assuming you mean physics, because nothing anyone has said would entail numeric systems being invalidated.) Rather arrogant, isn't it? As far as we can tell there are somewhere between 7 and 29 dimensions, of which we have only very limited knowledge of three (four if you consider time a dimension). Try reading 'Flatland' for a hint at how some of those other dimensions might interact with ours.
Nearly everything we see falls neatly in the ranges predicted by scientific theories.
That is at least in part because the ranges predicted by the theories are what we're monitoring. CERN for example automatically discards 99.many-9s of the data generated by their tests without even analyzing it, just because of the sheer volume of data created. For 70%-90% of the mass and energy in the universe we don't even have a way to detect it yet, much less analyze anything more than the galactic-level properties of it.
So the fact that it's just been in the last 20 years that we've realized that we can't even detect 70-90% of all the matter and energy in the universe except at the galactic level doesn't humble you at all? We have it all figured out? Up until a few centuries ago we had 50 millenia of "hard science" showing that the oceans could not be crossed by mariners. Today we have 15 year-old girls who do it single-handed. I hope you like surprises, the future is full of them.
I take it you aren't actually old enough to have been politically aware when Ronnie was president. At one point he publicly "remembered" being in the trenches at Iwo Jima.
I believe it was Arthur Clarke who I heard speculate that we may have already encountered other sentient life and just not recognized it. If something lived so slowly that it took decades or years to form a coherent thought we would never have the patience to talk to it (even if we could figure out how). If something lived so quickly that it was here and gone in a day it wouldn't have the patience to talk to us. For some long-lived species a trip between stars that lasted a thousand years, to us essentially an impossibility, might be the equivalent of an evening parking on Lover's Lane.
One of my favorite mouse-over comments on XKCD goes to the effect of, "There is no logical economic reason to go to the stars. The universe is full of civilizations and species that lived and died on a solitary planet, discovered and recorded by the species which did the illogical thing."
The Anti-Humans-In-Space Nutters seem to have descended in force on this topic. Two centuries ago they would have been busily shouting down anyone who predicted that someday humans would travel faster than 35 miles an hour.
So the Teabaggers should be allowed to violate tax laws because Obama doesn't like them? Interesting concept. They could have registered as any of several other types of non-profit and not had any issues, instead they decided to register as one of the two classes that are NOT allowed to do political campaigning while openly doing just that. This is the exact same issue that got the Moral Majority's tax exempt status revoked at one point. They later re-registered as the correct type of non-profit and had no further issues, except that now they have to reveal their financial patrons.
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Oh, goodness, you pick the hottest year in history and when the next few years don't **quite** equal that extreme point confidently declare that the entire century and a half observed warming trend is invalid? Really? Look up 'statistical outliers' and try to comprehend the concept and then get back to us. By the way, 2014 is now the hottest year on record, you're going to have to reset your talking point.
still do not completely understand all of them
They've been studying and modeling the electron for over a century and still do not understand everything about it, either. That doesn't stop us from using them to operate these magical boxes that we communicate with.
The Doctrine of Papal Infallibility originated in the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century. Before that the pope was just a man. A very powerful man, but not the font of god's direct word.
For all reasonable considerations our atmosphere is in fact a closed system, and what does escape can be quantified. Gravity and the magnetosphere keep escaping gasses to a minimum. Albedo varies over time but is measurable to within a remarkable number of decimal points by satellite. Anything that is not reflected is absorbed, either by the atmosphere itself or by the water and land below it. Re-radiation is also measured by those same satellites.
Of course other climate events affect overall global temperatures, and of course there are other 'forcings' at work. My 4th grade niece would set her hands on her hips, look at you, and say, "Duh!" Are you of the rather absurd opinion that the models that people have labored over refining for decades don't attempt to include them? I would highly recommend that you look at a few of them, you will be surprised at the work that goes into the process of modeling (I know I was).
Land clearing? Where? Every renewable energy installation that I have ever seen except hydro has been sited in already open land. Even in northern Michigan the wind farms are located on existing farmland, the farmers just plow around the foundation of the thing and continue on their merry way. The best sites are areas that are already bare because of local weather and other environmental conditions, and you will probably be shocked to find that those are the primary places that they are located.
You really think that it's better for a Third World country to have to buy coal from the US or Australia until the end of time, rather than have a power source that will need no imports for the next two decades? You don't work for the World Bank or IMF by chance, do you?
In the case of the above poster, I don't think he's bright enough to figure out how to create a user account. Most of the time it seems to be people who are too cowardly to have their name associated with their beliefs. Several times Mr. AC has told me that I was stupid for posting something that can easily be tracked back to my actual name because future employers might take umbrage. (My reply has always been that I wouldn't have wanted to work for people like that anyway.) It's typical of the breakdown of the whole online forum format though, which is too bad because it's my favorite type of online discussion.
I take it you never flew before deregulation, when there were a lot more airlines offering a lot more service with better seats and no additional fees. Ronnie Raygun has a lot to pay for down there in Hell, and the "government is the problem" meme is one of the big ones. Hope he's getting raped hourly with a porcupine.
A lot of airlines would show a profit if the CEO and his flunkies didn't suck a quarter billion dollars a year out of them. Executive pay in the US is absolutely out of hand, and many, many companies are run in a manner that makes it obvious that their only function is to feed the execs' bank accounts.
I'd be surprised if they don't ship out big pile of bits for rendering on the AWS/Google/MS clouds, since it's so much cheaper than buying dedicated CPUs that will then sit unused until the next batch of rendering needs to be done. Much of the original Star Wars movies were actually rendered after hours on servers at Informix and ARC GIS networks, so it's nothing new.
If North Korea came to America to "liberate" us from our government
Amusingly enough that's the plot to the recent remake of 'Red Dawn'. You really must watch it if you like bad movies, it makes Ron Jeremy's vampire movie look like high art in comparison.
Cool, thanks for that. I knew they existed but had never actually had the chance to read them. Interesting that they wanted to use the Soviets as a go-between.
Probably can't read a map either. I'm amazed at the number of people who can't, even those who grew up before the GPS era. I've worked with people who couldn't stand on the corner of NE 10th Street and 5th Avenue SE and know which way to go to get to NE 18th St and 20th Ave NE. It just astounds me.
The fun of shopping??? The only think that I find fun about shopping is when I have figured out how to get out of doing it. When our nieces were still in town Rosa would go with them and I didn't have to deal with it often, but now they've moved.
That's the difference between mall-located and non-mall Radio Shacks. Go into the Radio Shack in the local mall and they'll have cell phones, HDMI cables, and not much else. Just as well, no one in that store would know what a serial cable or a resistor was.
Not many fish live-birth, you would need a male to fertilize those eggs. Normally the fertilized eggs are carried on plant matter stuck to ducks, or occasionally the eggs stick to the birds themselves.
Has the situation of any native species ever improved because of the magical market forces? Ever? I can't think of one. Buffalo, beavers, wolves, condors, redwoods, otters, etc. would all be extinct if the top-down management had allowed "actors look out for their own interests". Individual people are myopic short-term actors, only when we band into larger organizations is anything worthwhile ever accomplished.
Carp and suckers are fairly fatty fish, you don't want to fry or bake them really. They're OK grilled, but they're outstanding in a smoker. The fat drips down and burns and everyone in the neighborhood knows that something delicious is about to be available. You may become very popular for an afternoon . . .
They are the same, everywhere in the Universe.
Not even Einstein would have claimed that. We have barely crossed the heliopause, and you can claim that we know that physics works exactly the same everywhere? (I'm assuming you mean physics, because nothing anyone has said would entail numeric systems being invalidated.) Rather arrogant, isn't it? As far as we can tell there are somewhere between 7 and 29 dimensions, of which we have only very limited knowledge of three (four if you consider time a dimension). Try reading 'Flatland' for a hint at how some of those other dimensions might interact with ours.
Nearly everything we see falls neatly in the ranges predicted by scientific theories.
That is at least in part because the ranges predicted by the theories are what we're monitoring. CERN for example automatically discards 99.many-9s of the data generated by their tests without even analyzing it, just because of the sheer volume of data created. For 70%-90% of the mass and energy in the universe we don't even have a way to detect it yet, much less analyze anything more than the galactic-level properties of it.
So the fact that it's just been in the last 20 years that we've realized that we can't even detect 70-90% of all the matter and energy in the universe except at the galactic level doesn't humble you at all? We have it all figured out? Up until a few centuries ago we had 50 millenia of "hard science" showing that the oceans could not be crossed by mariners. Today we have 15 year-old girls who do it single-handed. I hope you like surprises, the future is full of them.
I take it you aren't actually old enough to have been politically aware when Ronnie was president. At one point he publicly "remembered" being in the trenches at Iwo Jima.
I was just going to post the same, except to mention AOpix (haven't used a Morpho system).
I believe it was Arthur Clarke who I heard speculate that we may have already encountered other sentient life and just not recognized it. If something lived so slowly that it took decades or years to form a coherent thought we would never have the patience to talk to it (even if we could figure out how). If something lived so quickly that it was here and gone in a day it wouldn't have the patience to talk to us. For some long-lived species a trip between stars that lasted a thousand years, to us essentially an impossibility, might be the equivalent of an evening parking on Lover's Lane.
One of my favorite mouse-over comments on XKCD goes to the effect of, "There is no logical economic reason to go to the stars. The universe is full of civilizations and species that lived and died on a solitary planet, discovered and recorded by the species which did the illogical thing."
The Anti-Humans-In-Space Nutters seem to have descended in force on this topic. Two centuries ago they would have been busily shouting down anyone who predicted that someday humans would travel faster than 35 miles an hour.
So the Teabaggers should be allowed to violate tax laws because Obama doesn't like them? Interesting concept. They could have registered as any of several other types of non-profit and not had any issues, instead they decided to register as one of the two classes that are NOT allowed to do political campaigning while openly doing just that. This is the exact same issue that got the Moral Majority's tax exempt status revoked at one point. They later re-registered as the correct type of non-profit and had no further issues, except that now they have to reveal their financial patrons.