Congratulations!! You just explained by analogy how melting ice pack (ice cube), that is ALREADY floating in the water, will have no meaningful effect on sea level.
Now try this, take that same full cup and put two chop sticks side by side across the top of the glass. Now place a few ice cubes on the chop sticks and watch them melt, what happens to the water level in this case?
What is worrying is ice that is currently NOT floating is showing signs of melting, which will have an impact on sea levels.
The climate is changing, it doesn't mater if its caused by humans or some natural cycle, we have to start thinking about how we are going to adapt now if we are going to survive long term.
Remember that what happens elsewhere in the world DOES have an effect on you, it may be slight but it does. Ever notice how milk costs more when petrol prices go up because of political unrest in the middle East?
Unfortunately he will likely still get a chance to contribute to the decline of the the gene pool when he gets out of jail so he is, again unfortunately, ineligible for a Darwin Award. This time.
This is an extreme example supporting my long standing belief that only stupid criminals get caught, the smart ones end up running mega-corps like M$.
Correction; Read the summary, Micro$oft is still guilty of infringment.
Only the amount of the damages have been overturned. The appeal court sent the case back to the lower court to rethink the amount that M$ has to pay but still found that M$ was guilty of stealing from Alcatel-Lucent.
Come on people, if you use TLA (Three Letter Acronyms) at least have the courtesy to not make the somewhat arrogant assumption that just because you know what it is everyone else does.
I considered that but couldn't find any reference clearly stating that the FBI investigated anything for the FCC. If you can cite a source that contradicts my belief that the FBI does not handle the FCC investigations please post it so I will not make the mistake again in the future.
The point that the ELF "press office" in DC is a sham still stands though, so does the one about the "Founding Fathers" of the USA and the probable use of this to further the erosion of civil rights.
Or it just got caught in a fishing net, wreck, seaweed, mud, giant jellyfish, take your pick. This thing is un-powered and is made to "glide" in the water, you could stop it dead with a high test fishing line or kelp plant.
From the ELF Wiki entry "The Earth Liberation Front has no formal leadership, hierarchy, membership or official spokesperson and is entirely decentralized; instead consisting of individuals or cells who choose the term as a banner to use."
If the "press office" in DC is claiming credit for something that happened in Washington state then it should not be taken without a bag of salt.
Read up on the ELF before you start flaming all of them.
Also keep in mind the fact that by the definition the FBI uses to define "domestic terrorism" the "Founding Fathers" of the USA would all be terrorists. At its base this was an act of common vandalism, a state issue, but because credit has been conveniently claimed by a "Domestic Terrorist" group the FBI can come in and dig into anything they say is connected with it and then report back to congress and the press claiming that they need more power to run surveillance operations on US citizens.
And yes, I know I sound like I'm wearing a tin foil hat but sometimes the "nut jobs" see things others miss. And for the recored I'm wearing fire proof armor because I know I'm going to get flamed big time.
OK, you do have a point, but the same thing can be said about getting drunk, which is legal.
The point I was making though still stands, what you do in your own home should be your business, as long as you are responsible about it, which includes not neglecting responsibilities like your children.
The cannabis users I know will take a few hits to ease the nausea from their chemo, loosen up a spasming muscle in their back or on occasion just to wind down from a really stressful week. Just like having a beer after work, and interestingly enough they are much more coherent after a few hits than they are after a few beers. They are responsible in how they use their drug of choice, for recreational users the goal is to unwind and relax, not to get so intoxicated that they can't function.
I am not saying that this is the case with everyone, there will always be those who will abuse whatever there drug of choice is, but by moving from punishing people for possession and private use the focus can be moved to trying to alleviate the underlying social and psychological issues that may be causing the abuse of a substance.
Note about Heroin users, it depends on the dose and the desired outcome, chill out for an evening or get so numbed to life that you don't care anymore about Hell your living in. Many of the "side effects" associated with its use are in fact caused by what the heroin is cut with, not the heroin itself.
It just like any drug, depending on how its used it can be benign, possibly beneficial, or destructive.
"3. Repeal all laws which send people to jail in the absence of harm to an innocent third party"
Fixed that, taking a bong hit or even shooting up heroin in the privacy of your home doesn't hurt anyone else. Other factors unrelated to the drugs themselves cause the violence associated with their use.
"Narcotics are no more an integral part of Mexican culture than gang warfare is of Los Angeles, or corruption is in Mexico."
Apples, oranges, almonds. Some form of drug use, opium, cannabis, peyote, alcohol, is part of every culture, just not critical to it as the word "integral" could be interpreted as meaning.
"Note that Columbia used to have worse problems with drug violence, but it's largely been eliminated (and pushed into Peru and Venezuela, but that's a different story)."
Not "eliminated", ie. "gone", just moved. It doesn't matter where the people die because of Columbia's "War", its still part of the same story.
"There will always be drug trafficking as long as it is illegal, but violent powerful drug cartels are not a necessary part of that..."
Very true, legalize drugs and the cartels will loose the funding to buy the weapons and officials, crime/violence will go down, civilians will be safer.
If we can eat, and be nourished by, alien life then any bacterium from the same environment could use US as food as well.
And even then alien predators would likely still TRY to eat us if they thought we might taste good, or could be used as incubators for their parasitic, chest busting, off-spring, or they might just want to hunt us for sport with plasma based weapons while using active-camo.
1. During the Lunar night, which lasts 2 weeks, there would be no lit areas to use.
2. Some of the proposed sites for Lunar bases are in areas that are in constant shade.
3. The temperature difference between sunny/shade on Mars is negligible.
4. Beyond the orbit of Mars the temperature difference gets even smaller, to the point that you could be dressed in an all black pressure suit while standing in full sun and still freeze solid without a heater.
Massive Earthquake hits Southern California. All communication, power, water infrastructure destroyed or damaged.
As you point out all the interference caused by the power lines would be gone, in that area.
What about the areas outside the zone that are the ones the people in the zone will be trying to talk to?
Every year a bunch of Ham radio people set up in a park in Berkeley, CA, and for three days they are off the grid running their equipment on solar panels, batteries, gas generator, exercise bikes with generators, whatever. The point is for them to show that they can maintain contact with the rest of the world without the infrastructure that will be knocked out in a disaster. And teach people about Ham radio to drum up new recruits.
After the tsunami in Indian ocean one of the only sources of news and communication was Ham operators in the area.
Not a ground to orbit engine, the assembly would be too heavy for the max thrust of current non-chemical fueled engines. But once in orbit the energy generated could run a VASIMR, conventional ion or water/steam based thruster quite well. With something like that Mars would be less than 6 month round trip, the outer planets and more importantly asteroids would be within practical reach. This kind of engine could be used to bring an asteroid into Earth orbit for mining or divert a rock on an impact trajectory.
The more I think about it the more I think this idea is just crazy enough to work.
Don't you just love how you get all these replies but no answers?
I've been using a VM to run some Windows only games and misc. application, kind of sounds like what your looking for so here is the run down; Hardware is a HP laptop with a dual core AMD Turion 64 bit running at 2GHz with 4G RAM.
I use the amd64 version of Debian Etch with KDE3.5 and Sun's VirtualBox 2.2.4 for those MS Windows applications that I still need to use, currently 1 old game and some file conversion apps that I'm still figuring out the Linux versions of.
Setting up VB was a breeze, just follow the instructions on the site to add the repositories and use apt-get to install. Once VB is installed it has a set-up wizard to create the VMs so that part is a snap, just accept the defaults at first, you can fine tune them later. My experience has been that VB's interface is intuitive and direct, everything you need is easy to find and the best part for me was that I didn't have to jump though any registration hoops like I did with VMware. Also the on line support forums are very usefull when you have questions or need to tweak something a particular way.
Installing XP in the new VM was simple, direct and effortless, no special drivers needed by XP If you use a bootable iso of a Win XP install disk as your VM's "CD drive" the install is fast. Once you have your base XP VM you can update it and install the "Guest Additions"(login to your new XP VM and look under "Devices" on the VM's toolbar). From there your ready to go, I exported the VM at this point so I have my base image.
Another fun thing about VB is you can use its "seemless mode" to put the Windows toolbar/Start button on the KDE desktop and the Windows apps look like they are part of KDE desktop, your wife will love it.
I don't know how usefull this is going to be but I hope it helps.
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Congratulations!! You just explained by analogy how melting ice pack (ice cube), that is ALREADY floating in the water, will have no meaningful effect on sea level.
Now try this, take that same full cup and put two chop sticks side by side across the top of the glass. Now place a few ice cubes on the chop sticks and watch them melt, what happens to the water level in this case?
What is worrying is ice that is currently NOT floating is showing signs of melting, which will have an impact on sea levels.
The climate is changing, it doesn't mater if its caused by humans or some natural cycle, we have to start thinking about how we are going to adapt now if we are going to survive long term.
Remember that what happens elsewhere in the world DOES have an effect on you, it may be slight but it does. Ever notice how milk costs more when petrol prices go up because of political unrest in the middle East?
Unfortunately he will likely still get a chance to contribute to the decline of the the gene pool when he gets out of jail so he is, again unfortunately, ineligible for a Darwin Award. This time.
This is an extreme example supporting my long standing belief that only stupid criminals get caught, the smart ones end up running mega-corps like M$.
Correction;
Read the summary, Micro$oft is still guilty of infringment.
Only the amount of the damages have been overturned. The appeal court sent the case back to the lower court to rethink the amount that M$ has to pay but still found that M$ was guilty of stealing from Alcatel-Lucent.
My moneys on the Pigeon, as long as there is more than one being sent out with the same packet. That whole Eggs/Basket thing makes me hedge my bet.
Thank you.
Come on people, if you use TLA (Three Letter Acronyms) at least have the courtesy to not make the somewhat arrogant assumption that just because you know what it is everyone else does.
I considered that but couldn't find any reference clearly stating that the FBI investigated anything for the FCC. If you can cite a source that contradicts my belief that the FBI does not handle the FCC investigations please post it so I will not make the mistake again in the future.
The point that the ELF "press office" in DC is a sham still stands though, so does the one about the "Founding Fathers" of the USA and the probable use of this to further the erosion of civil rights.
Or it just got caught in a fishing net, wreck, seaweed, mud, giant jellyfish, take your pick. This thing is un-powered and is made to "glide" in the water, you could stop it dead with a high test fishing line or kelp plant.
The "press office" in DC is bogus.
From the ELF Wiki entry "The Earth Liberation Front has no formal leadership, hierarchy, membership or official spokesperson and is entirely decentralized; instead consisting of individuals or cells who choose the term as a banner to use."
If the "press office" in DC is claiming credit for something that happened in Washington state then it should not be taken without a bag of salt.
Read up on the ELF before you start flaming all of them.
Also keep in mind the fact that by the definition the FBI uses to define "domestic terrorism" the "Founding Fathers" of the USA would all be terrorists. At its base this was an act of common vandalism, a state issue, but because credit has been conveniently claimed by a "Domestic Terrorist" group the FBI can come in and dig into anything they say is connected with it and then report back to congress and the press claiming that they need more power to run surveillance operations on US citizens.
And yes, I know I sound like I'm wearing a tin foil hat but sometimes the "nut jobs" see things others miss. And for the recored I'm wearing fire proof armor because I know I'm going to get flamed big time.
Makes me wonder if Shogoths started out as a little orange mold in a petri dish.
OK, you do have a point, but the same thing can be said about getting drunk, which is legal.
The point I was making though still stands, what you do in your own home should be your business, as long as you are responsible about it, which includes not neglecting responsibilities like your children.
The cannabis users I know will take a few hits to ease the nausea from their chemo, loosen up a spasming muscle in their back or on occasion just to wind down from a really stressful week. Just like having a beer after work, and interestingly enough they are much more coherent after a few hits than they are after a few beers. They are responsible in how they use their drug of choice, for recreational users the goal is to unwind and relax, not to get so intoxicated that they can't function.
I am not saying that this is the case with everyone, there will always be those who will abuse whatever there drug of choice is, but by moving from punishing people for possession and private use the focus can be moved to trying to alleviate the underlying social and psychological issues that may be causing the abuse of a substance.
Note about Heroin users, it depends on the dose and the desired outcome, chill out for an evening or get so numbed to life that you don't care anymore about Hell your living in. Many of the "side effects" associated with its use are in fact caused by what the heroin is cut with, not the heroin itself.
It just like any drug, depending on how its used it can be benign, possibly beneficial, or destructive.
"3. Repeal all laws which send people to jail in the absence of harm to an innocent third party"
Fixed that, taking a bong hit or even shooting up heroin in the privacy of your home doesn't hurt anyone else. Other factors unrelated to the drugs themselves cause the violence associated with their use.
"Narcotics are no more an integral part of Mexican culture than gang warfare is of Los Angeles, or corruption is in Mexico."
Apples, oranges, almonds. Some form of drug use, opium, cannabis, peyote, alcohol, is part of every culture, just not critical to it as the word "integral" could be interpreted as meaning.
"Note that Columbia used to have worse problems with drug violence, but it's largely been eliminated (and pushed into Peru and Venezuela, but that's a different story)."
Not "eliminated", ie. "gone", just moved. It doesn't matter where the people die because of Columbia's "War", its still part of the same story.
"There will always be drug trafficking as long as it is illegal, but violent powerful drug cartels are not a necessary part of that..."
Very true, legalize drugs and the cartels will loose the funding to buy the weapons and officials, crime/violence will go down, civilians will be safer.
My 1.88793 Yen.
And lets not forget that it would work both ways.
If we can eat, and be nourished by, alien life then any bacterium from the same environment could use US as food as well.
And even then alien predators would likely still TRY to eat us if they thought we might taste good, or could be used as incubators for their parasitic, chest busting, off-spring, or they might just want to hunt us for sport with plasma based weapons while using active-camo.
1. During the Lunar night, which lasts 2 weeks, there would be no lit areas to use.
2. Some of the proposed sites for Lunar bases are in areas that are in constant shade.
3. The temperature difference between sunny/shade on Mars is negligible.
4. Beyond the orbit of Mars the temperature difference gets even smaller, to the point that you could be dressed in an all black pressure suit while standing in full sun and still freeze solid without a heater.
Heres another scenario for you:
Massive Earthquake hits Southern California. All communication, power, water infrastructure destroyed or damaged.
As you point out all the interference caused by the power lines would be gone, in that area.
What about the areas outside the zone that are the ones the people in the zone will be trying to talk to?
Every year a bunch of Ham radio people set up in a park in Berkeley, CA, and for three days they are off the grid running their equipment on solar panels, batteries, gas generator, exercise bikes with generators, whatever. The point is for them to show that they can maintain contact with the rest of the world without the infrastructure that will be knocked out in a disaster. And teach people about Ham radio to drum up new recruits.
After the tsunami in Indian ocean one of the only sources of news and communication was Ham operators in the area.
We need to keep those frequencies clear.
It would depend on what you put the match to.
As if "The Man" doesn't have informants and operatives in the crowd anyway.
Lord of the Flies.
Sorry, no link due to low caffeine levels.
".. these offenders thrived on the fear they created through threats and intimidation."
Sort of like the governments?
I think it could. (IANARS, but I play one on /.)
Not a ground to orbit engine, the assembly would be too heavy for the max thrust of current non-chemical fueled engines. But once in orbit the energy generated could run a VASIMR, conventional ion or water/steam based thruster quite well. With something like that Mars would be less than 6 month round trip, the outer planets and more importantly asteroids would be within practical reach. This kind of engine could be used to bring an asteroid into Earth orbit for mining or divert a rock on an impact trajectory.
The more I think about it the more I think this idea is just crazy enough to work.
Yeah, if he was still alive. This could really mess with his funding.
Skimmed the article, they're planing to do with pistons what would be done explosives in a normal nuclear bomb.
Wouldn't it be funny if it worked?
Tune in to watch the final episode at 11:11 UT, December 21st, 2012, Earth standard.
It would explain a lot.
Don't you just love how you get all these replies but no answers?
I've been using a VM to run some Windows only games and misc. application, kind of sounds like what your looking for so here is the run down;
Hardware is a HP laptop with a dual core AMD Turion 64 bit running at 2GHz with 4G RAM.
I use the amd64 version of Debian Etch with KDE3.5 and Sun's VirtualBox 2.2.4 for those MS Windows applications that I still need to use, currently 1 old game and some file conversion apps that I'm still figuring out the Linux versions of.
Setting up VB was a breeze, just follow the instructions on the site to add the repositories and use apt-get to install. Once VB is installed it has a set-up wizard to create the VMs so that part is a snap, just accept the defaults at first, you can fine tune them later. My experience has been that VB's interface is intuitive and direct, everything you need is easy to find and the best part for me was that I didn't have to jump though any registration hoops like I did with VMware. Also the on line support forums are very usefull when you have questions or need to tweak something a particular way.
Installing XP in the new VM was simple, direct and effortless, no special drivers needed by XP If you use a bootable iso of a Win XP install disk as your VM's "CD drive" the install is fast. Once you have your base XP VM you can update it and install the "Guest Additions"(login to your new XP VM and look under "Devices" on the VM's toolbar). From there your ready to go, I exported the VM at this point so I have my base image.
Another fun thing about VB is you can use its "seemless mode" to put the Windows toolbar/Start button on the KDE desktop and the Windows apps look like they are part of KDE desktop, your wife will love it.
I don't know how usefull this is going to be but I hope it helps.