Maybe, but the first doubling is more effective than the second doubling due to saturating the bands at which CO2 absorbs. Also, although it's possible to estimate the CO2 output of mankind based on the mass of carbon we're mining (tends to be done by large industries, so the records are easier to gather), it's much less easy to measure the CO2 contribution from natural sources.. e.g. plant/animal respiration, bog decay, permafrost melt, ocean currents, geological chemistry, etc.
IIRC, our last guess was that the annual gross CO2 production of mankind was roughly 10% of the annual gross natural production, which leads to a couple of interesting observations:
1) if the natural production varies by 1%, that's equivalent to a 10% variation in human output'
2) assuming the natural CO2 fixing was handling the natural production sans human output, what mechanism keeps it from being able to handle an extra 10%?
Noting that there are several processes wherein warming results in the release of CO2, I think it's fair to assume that while we may be a contributing factor, human CO2 output was neither the cause of the current trend, nor would eliminating human output result in ceasing the upward temperature trend.
We need to stop going bat-shit crazy over this issue, because irrational panicking is only leading to legislation encouraging scams like corn-ethanol subsidies (which iirc, actually requires the extraction of more oil for the same quantity transportation-available energy than just refining gasoline and diesel from that oil would have), inefficiently-sized, over-priced wind-farms (designed to milk subsidies moreso than generate power efficiently), and other boondoggles of dubious efficacy.
The cost to switch to IPv6 is not flipping a switch. It will cost trillions upon trillions of dollars globally to migrate. Selling investments like that in the middle of a global recession is not small potatoes
Wait.. when would you prefer doing it? Wait until the labor market is tight again? If it's going to take the efforts of thousands of people to make it happen, wouldn't it be best to do it when labor is cheap?
they were originally thinking about some type of table-display-control thing which was very unwieldy>
I believe this is the future you were talking about...
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On the other hand, without the censorship, every television show would be some kind of cheaply produced reality porn show. No one would bother even trying to tell a good story to get ratings...
SI is the official unit system of the US as well, but we've defined the old units in SI terms so we don't have to print new signs and whatnot. Most of the time it doesn't really matter, anyway. (and where it does, you see more of the metric units.)
No, Emitt "Doc" Brown, who invented the thing, did scientific and engineering research in Hill Valley, California over a period of over 100 years (non-consecutive). He would not have used the imperial system of measurement, ever, as California is a US state and would've used US standard units instead.
US standard is similar to Imperial, but there are subtle differences. For instance, our gallons are a little bit leaner.
I bought one a week after they came out, stuck in alkaline batteries, and just had to replace them for the first time last week. Even if you go with rechargeables, you're going to go weeks between chargings.
I like the magic mouse, but the feet are terrible. They're noisy and have high friction.
If they'd fix the feet before going on ridiculous adventures with displays (I never look at the mouse when using it anyway, does anyone do this?), it'd be almost perfect.
Wait.. Krell, seriously?! As in, the lost civilization in the movie, "The forbidden Planet" that destroyed themselves with a telepathic wish-granting machine by dreaming about monsters?
Well, ish. It was actually so that the company can take advantage of the information disparity between its employees: if you don't know what others who do the same thing as you are making, then you have less bargaining power: you don't even know that you should be spreading your resume around.
It's a kind of market segmentation, and it's pretty shady when you think about it.
That's fine, if you want to build your plant in the cheap part of town, but if you don't, then everyone, including new hires, should be paid at least enough to live near the plant.
The strange thing is how vociferous the US intelligence agencies are in condemning wikileaks and apparently convincing foreign law enforcement to hype up charges to go after the founder.
It's strange, because a compromised wikileaks would be an incredible intelligence/counterintelligence asset, and all they'd have to do is establish credibility for a few people in verifying the authenticity of various leaks, and they'd have access to everything well before it becomes public, possibly even things that wikileaks never makes public (like the identity of the leakers, for instance)
Or.. that is the goal, and they're just playing hardball to establish wikileaks' integrity and popularity...
I still have yet to understand what's so amazing about iOS, from a GUI point of view. It's incredibly sparse and lacking in workflow functionality.
Looks like you answered your own question.
Geeks want everything connected in myriad ways so we can be as efficient as possible, but that extra complexity comes at a cost: you have to learn all those pathways in order to use them, and in some cases.. to avoid accidentally using them.
There is a large segment of the population that is happy with a swiss army knife that they can understand all the features of fairly quickly, and don't have to worry about the magnifying glass popping out of the bottle bottle opener.
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You mean... like this one?
It crosses off one of the terms...
Maybe, but the first doubling is more effective than the second doubling due to saturating the bands at which CO2 absorbs. Also, although it's possible to estimate the CO2 output of mankind based on the mass of carbon we're mining (tends to be done by large industries, so the records are easier to gather), it's much less easy to measure the CO2 contribution from natural sources.. e.g. plant/animal respiration, bog decay, permafrost melt, ocean currents, geological chemistry, etc.
IIRC, our last guess was that the annual gross CO2 production of mankind was roughly 10% of the annual gross natural production, which leads to a couple of interesting observations:
1) if the natural production varies by 1%, that's equivalent to a 10% variation in human output'
2) assuming the natural CO2 fixing was handling the natural production sans human output, what mechanism keeps it from being able to handle an extra 10%?
Noting that there are several processes wherein warming results in the release of CO2, I think it's fair to assume that while we may be a contributing factor, human CO2 output was neither the cause of the current trend, nor would eliminating human output result in ceasing the upward temperature trend.
We need to stop going bat-shit crazy over this issue, because irrational panicking is only leading to legislation encouraging scams like corn-ethanol subsidies (which iirc, actually requires the extraction of more oil for the same quantity transportation-available energy than just refining gasoline and diesel from that oil would have), inefficiently-sized, over-priced wind-farms (designed to milk subsidies moreso than generate power efficiently), and other boondoggles of dubious efficacy.
The cost to switch to IPv6 is not flipping a switch. It will cost trillions upon trillions of dollars globally to migrate. Selling investments like that in the middle of a global recession is not small potatoes
Wait.. when would you prefer doing it? Wait until the labor market is tight again? If it's going to take the efforts of thousands of people to make it happen, wouldn't it be best to do it when labor is cheap?
they were originally thinking about some type of table-display-control thing which was very unwieldy>
I believe this is the future you were talking about...
On the other hand, without the censorship, every television show would be some kind of cheaply produced reality porn show. No one would bother even trying to tell a good story to get ratings...
SI is the official unit system of the US as well, but we've defined the old units in SI terms so we don't have to print new signs and whatnot. Most of the time it doesn't really matter, anyway. (and where it does, you see more of the metric units.)
No, Emitt "Doc" Brown, who invented the thing, did scientific and engineering research in Hill Valley, California over a period of over 100 years (non-consecutive). He would not have used the imperial system of measurement, ever, as California is a US state and would've used US standard units instead.
US standard is similar to Imperial, but there are subtle differences. For instance, our gallons are a little bit leaner.
I bought one a week after they came out, stuck in alkaline batteries, and just had to replace them for the first time last week. Even if you go with rechargeables, you're going to go weeks between chargings.
there is no middle click, so you don't need locators: the edges of the device are the locators.
I like the magic mouse, but the feet are terrible. They're noisy and have high friction.
If they'd fix the feet before going on ridiculous adventures with displays (I never look at the mouse when using it anyway, does anyone do this?), it'd be almost perfect.
IIRC, it didn't work out so well for Sean Connory's character...
Wait.. Krell, seriously?! As in, the lost civilization in the movie, "The forbidden Planet" that destroyed themselves with a telepathic wish-granting machine by dreaming about monsters?
Needs work: you should disguise those so they look like government fees and/or taxes....
Every character Bob Denver ever played looked quite a bit like Gilligan....
Well, ish. It was actually so that the company can take advantage of the information disparity between its employees: if you don't know what others who do the same thing as you are making, then you have less bargaining power: you don't even know that you should be spreading your resume around.
It's a kind of market segmentation, and it's pretty shady when you think about it.
That's fine, if you want to build your plant in the cheap part of town, but if you don't, then everyone, including new hires, should be paid at least enough to live near the plant.
Too bad it never occurred to him to turn the VFO into an HF transmitter to send an SOS and get off the island, though...
Woosh.
Do the swiss also have state and local taxes?
It does not necessarily follow that the more taxes you pay, the more civilization you get.
I'm sure I can trust that you contribute more to the government than you're legally required to, right? And don't claim any exemptions for anything?
The strange thing is how vociferous the US intelligence agencies are in condemning wikileaks and apparently convincing foreign law enforcement to hype up charges to go after the founder.
It's strange, because a compromised wikileaks would be an incredible intelligence/counterintelligence asset, and all they'd have to do is establish credibility for a few people in verifying the authenticity of various leaks, and they'd have access to everything well before it becomes public, possibly even things that wikileaks never makes public (like the identity of the leakers, for instance)
Or.. that is the goal, and they're just playing hardball to establish wikileaks' integrity and popularity...
and taxation is supposed to help balance that out.
No, taxation is supposed to enable the government to pay for its lawful activity, the will of the people, nothing more or less.
That's too bad. I was really hoping to be able to get a see-thru scuba tank.
I still have yet to understand what's so amazing about iOS, from a GUI point of view. It's incredibly sparse and lacking in workflow functionality.
Looks like you answered your own question.
Geeks want everything connected in myriad ways so we can be as efficient as possible, but that extra complexity comes at a cost: you have to learn all those pathways in order to use them, and in some cases.. to avoid accidentally using them.
There is a large segment of the population that is happy with a swiss army knife that they can understand all the features of fairly quickly, and don't have to worry about the magnifying glass popping out of the bottle bottle opener.