Well, if the models had actually said that, I might be concerned, but they didn't. In fact the models from the '80s and '90s mostly underestimated the amount of warming that we're seeing and the amount of Arctic melting. They also overestimated the amount of CO2 that would be in the atmosphere now, because the ocean has been able to absorb more than was originally thought.
Didn't you know? If a model is not 100% accurate the first time it needs to be discarded and never tried again. Adjusting the model to more accurately reflect reality is called "tweaking the parameters" and not allowed. I thought that Khallow had made that clear in his previous posts, maybe you didn't get the memo?
Actually the Soviets didn't get the scientists, they mostly left with Von Braun. The technicians that were left behind and the hardware that they hadn't been able to destroy were all the Soviets obtained. The Soviet space program was almost completely home-grown, before WWII they were probably second (after Germany) in rocket design. That is why the Energia looks so dramatically different than the Saturn V, other than some advanced metallurgy techniques and (IIRC) turbo-fuel pumps they really didn't get much from the German effort.
My 1980s biology textbook has the rather startling fact that the worldwide spending on finding a cure or treatment for malaria, at that time the world's largest killer by far, was $8 million. The spending on just cancer research in just the United States that same year was over $500 million. The Gates Foundation should be long remembered for its efforts at spurring research on malaria remediation alone, even if it did nothing else.
In all honesty, the "taxes-vs.-deficit spending debate" has been going on since at least the 1980 election, with both parties changing sides several times (sometimes more than once in the same year). It's just gotten nastier with the introduction of the Teabaggers.
Yeah, that carrier group wouldn't have been deployed and wasting money anywhere else after all. If they weren't sent to Indonesia it wouldn't have cost us a penny. The military is such a great investment.
In fact, avoid the religious organizations like the plague that they are. They generally have the highest overhead and highest-paid administrators of any relief organizations, and take the opportunity to force religion down the throats of people who are just trying to save the lives of their families.
Let's say that you were an alien geologist dropped onto Earth. You get a couple of weeks to explore, with almost no equipment more complex than a rock hammer, an area smaller than Central Park in New York and bring back a total of a couple hundred kilos of samples for analysis. That's what we managed with Apollo.
Hands up anyone who thinks that there's nothing more to discover?
Don't know about this particular one, but I've seen fractional G modeled by putting the test subject under water or suspending the excess weight from wires. Both those options would mess with testing stability though.
That was from Seinfeld? Now I don't feel bad about missing the reference. I watched most of one episode, was disgusted at how much press such a truly abysmal piece of dreck was getting, and never went back.
They're not camping out much any more. Most of the big retailers are opening now on Thanksgiving evening and staying open all night. My wife has to go in to work at 8:00 p.m. Thursday. WalMart of course started that foolishness, and all the rest of the big box stores followed along like good lemmings. If I were to buy anything on Friday it would go to those stores who valued their employees enough to allow them a complete and uninterrupted holiday with their families.
The day after Thanksgiving is also National Buy Nothing Day, which I heartily endorse. My typical Black Friday activity is take the bus to the mall and sit there watching people and reading a good book without spending a penny.
Sunday and holiday delivery is available, for an extra cost. I've never seen Newegg pay the extra, did the screw up your order and this was their way of apologizing? Or maybe they had guaranteed delivery in x-many days and it was getting close?
In my neighborhood if I don't get anything but junk on a particular day the mail carrier just skips my mailbox. Sometimes I don't get anything for three or four days, then an enormous pile of junk mail with a couple of bills on top of it. That's probably not policy, but no one is complaining.
Private industry is more efficient than government.
I take it you've never experienced the joys of private water/sewer service. Locally, in Snohomish County the people have the choice between the Snohomish County Public Utility District or Puget Sound Energy for electricity. Because of the necessity of feeding as much profit as possible into shareholder dividends and executive salaries PSE's electrical service is more expensive, less reliable, and the equipment and lines are poorly maintained. For some odd reason, when given a choice almost everyone prefers to get their electricity from SnoPUD instead of PSE.
I just wish you would have the balls to tell that to me to my face.
Says the brave little Anonymous Coward. Log in with a real account, debate rationally, and the next time you're in Seattle we can meet and argue over a cup of coffee. Until then you're pissing away MY ELECTRONS.
Actually, IIRC that feature is the reason that most of the Pentagon runs Windows, NTFS was the only file system that could pass their tests. Any unauthorized access was possible only to users with Administrator-level access, and could be tracked. Now if ten people are logging in as Administrator so you can't tell who did it, that's a procedural problem.
They don't need it, BUT if you secure your folders correctly they have to take ownership to access them and you can know. At least in an NTFS file system, I don't know about the Linux file systems.
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Well, if the models had actually said that, I might be concerned, but they didn't. In fact the models from the '80s and '90s mostly underestimated the amount of warming that we're seeing and the amount of Arctic melting. They also overestimated the amount of CO2 that would be in the atmosphere now, because the ocean has been able to absorb more than was originally thought.
Didn't you know? If a model is not 100% accurate the first time it needs to be discarded and never tried again. Adjusting the model to more accurately reflect reality is called "tweaking the parameters" and not allowed. I thought that Khallow had made that clear in his previous posts, maybe you didn't get the memo?
Apparently a rector is also in charge of spewing out excessive apostrophes as well. Not sure why the AC wants to build a dam.
Actually the Soviets didn't get the scientists, they mostly left with Von Braun. The technicians that were left behind and the hardware that they hadn't been able to destroy were all the Soviets obtained. The Soviet space program was almost completely home-grown, before WWII they were probably second (after Germany) in rocket design. That is why the Energia looks so dramatically different than the Saturn V, other than some advanced metallurgy techniques and (IIRC) turbo-fuel pumps they really didn't get much from the German effort.
My 1980s biology textbook has the rather startling fact that the worldwide spending on finding a cure or treatment for malaria, at that time the world's largest killer by far, was $8 million. The spending on just cancer research in just the United States that same year was over $500 million. The Gates Foundation should be long remembered for its efforts at spurring research on malaria remediation alone, even if it did nothing else.
it's not a lack of anything
Well, perhaps a lack of gullibility . . .
Riding a bus instead of driving a Lincoln Navigator and eating chicken rather than veal is not "miserable". You need to get some perspective.
In all honesty, the "taxes-vs.-deficit spending debate" has been going on since at least the 1980 election, with both parties changing sides several times (sometimes more than once in the same year). It's just gotten nastier with the introduction of the Teabaggers.
Yeah, that carrier group wouldn't have been deployed and wasting money anywhere else after all. If they weren't sent to Indonesia it wouldn't have cost us a penny. The military is such a great investment.
In fact, avoid the religious organizations like the plague that they are. They generally have the highest overhead and highest-paid administrators of any relief organizations, and take the opportunity to force religion down the throats of people who are just trying to save the lives of their families.
Let's say that you were an alien geologist dropped onto Earth. You get a couple of weeks to explore, with almost no equipment more complex than a rock hammer, an area smaller than Central Park in New York and bring back a total of a couple hundred kilos of samples for analysis. That's what we managed with Apollo.
Hands up anyone who thinks that there's nothing more to discover?
Don't know about this particular one, but I've seen fractional G modeled by putting the test subject under water or suspending the excess weight from wires. Both those options would mess with testing stability though.
Madonna only wishes she had sung that, Cindy Lauper did it much better :)
That's because the middle class is already the most taxed, and the lower class doesn't have any money TO tax. Which leaves . . .
Well, you're posting on SlashDot, that's likely the only way it's going to go anyway.
That was from Seinfeld? Now I don't feel bad about missing the reference. I watched most of one episode, was disgusted at how much press such a truly abysmal piece of dreck was getting, and never went back.
They're not camping out much any more. Most of the big retailers are opening now on Thanksgiving evening and staying open all night. My wife has to go in to work at 8:00 p.m. Thursday. WalMart of course started that foolishness, and all the rest of the big box stores followed along like good lemmings. If I were to buy anything on Friday it would go to those stores who valued their employees enough to allow them a complete and uninterrupted holiday with their families.
The day after Thanksgiving is also National Buy Nothing Day, which I heartily endorse. My typical Black Friday activity is take the bus to the mall and sit there watching people and reading a good book without spending a penny.
Sunday and holiday delivery is available, for an extra cost. I've never seen Newegg pay the extra, did the screw up your order and this was their way of apologizing? Or maybe they had guaranteed delivery in x-many days and it was getting close?
In my neighborhood if I don't get anything but junk on a particular day the mail carrier just skips my mailbox. Sometimes I don't get anything for three or four days, then an enormous pile of junk mail with a couple of bills on top of it. That's probably not policy, but no one is complaining.
otherwise we'll have to bail out their pension fund in the future.
You mean like we did for every major airline in the country?
Private industry is more efficient than government.
I take it you've never experienced the joys of private water/sewer service. Locally, in Snohomish County the people have the choice between the Snohomish County Public Utility District or Puget Sound Energy for electricity. Because of the necessity of feeding as much profit as possible into shareholder dividends and executive salaries PSE's electrical service is more expensive, less reliable, and the equipment and lines are poorly maintained. For some odd reason, when given a choice almost everyone prefers to get their electricity from SnoPUD instead of PSE.
Damn, who let the Freepers in?
I just wish you would have the balls to tell that to me to my face.
Says the brave little Anonymous Coward. Log in with a real account, debate rationally, and the next time you're in Seattle we can meet and argue over a cup of coffee. Until then you're pissing away MY ELECTRONS.
Actually, IIRC that feature is the reason that most of the Pentagon runs Windows, NTFS was the only file system that could pass their tests. Any unauthorized access was possible only to users with Administrator-level access, and could be tracked. Now if ten people are logging in as Administrator so you can't tell who did it, that's a procedural problem.
They don't need it, BUT if you secure your folders correctly they have to take ownership to access them and you can know. At least in an NTFS file system, I don't know about the Linux file systems.
Now **that's** grasping at straws. Much better. BTW, x-rays are not visible to optical telescopes like Hubble.