Wireless has been prove to caused brain damage in kids and gender neutral. It's health impacts are hidden by legislation corporate interests who want to sterilze people with cellphones. FACT.
Could you pleas provide a SOURCE
Look around you. All of those idiots using cellphones and wireless headsets. Do you think that nature could create such fools?
The economics were due in part to the air pollution controls and the fact that the older style incinerators we designed to burn everything. You need to sort through stuff carefully.
Also, you might have noticed that the economics of oil and other power sources have changed slightly since the 1990s. Still sometimes a complex decision. We looked at restarting our small municipal incinerator but the start up costs and the limited power generated made industrial composting a better solution. But for a larger area, the decision might well have gone another way.
No, the value of the ISS is much, much more mundane. How to keep a gigantic pile of junk working in space. Short term flips around the moon or earth orbit are one thing, but you really have to be able to do stuff like fix something when it breaks.
The human reproduction thing will probably have to wait a while, but we can practice in the mean while.
The fearmongering comes from the media who don't understand anything more complex than a traffic ticket (or perhaps Brittney Spears on a good day). There was a tsunami alert for about a 100 mile stretch of coastline north and south of the quake which probably affected a thousand people at the very top end.
I'm going to bet that there are newsrooms who have the direct feeds for earthquakes and tsunamis fed into a semi automatic story generator. Get a 7+ quake and it spits out a story to somebody who doesn't think about it too carefully but dumps in on the wire. Then the Internet echo chamber has fun with it and you get this sort of over exaggeration.
I'm not sure what you're getting wound up about. I'm about 200 miles from the epicenter. We didn't get a tsunami warning but they did activate the reverse 911 system to tell people that there WASN'T a warning.
The actual warning area was quite small. The problem (if there is one) is the brain dead 'reporting' that implied that there was some sort of major quake and wave going on. We have these sorts of 'alerts' a couple of times per year and although some people get all wound up, they're the same people that cry when Lindsey Lohan gets arrested (again). The PD and fire department got about 100 calls (which swamped the single person sitting at the desk), hence the reverse 911 call.
Some people seem to live on the hair trigger edge of terminal boredom and anxiety - can't do much about them (except perhaps to disabuse them from going into the news media as a career).
If we went back to reporting earthquakes on an exponential scale then you'd have to try and teach reporters what an exponent was. That would not end well.....
I wish, sincerely wish that Slashdot could manage an edit function....
Anyway, what I really wanted to point out was that observation that the US likes to mix up production and research programs. The DOD is a poster child for this (even if they're better at sat tech then NOAA). Want a new fighter? Sure, spec it out so that have the technology doesn't exist yet then get all twizzled that it doesn't get built on time or on budget. Better of making a less sexy fighter (and more of them) with current tech and keeping up the skunk works or whatever for the whizzy stuff.
Christ, the major US bomber (the B-52) is older than I am. LIkewise one of the primary cargo planes (the C-130). Somehow, even though we 'just' have 15 year old F-16's and 18's as the primary fighter we're not involved in dog fights on a weekly basis.
I suspect the same thing is happening with the weather satellites.
Keep it Simple, Stupid. More is better. Murphy hates redundancy.
Perhaps not but the US Department of Defense seems to toss up satellites with cameras on a regular basis. I'm at a bit of a loss to understand why this is so hard. The basic sensing suite should be well established by now. Satellite technology is well established. Certainly there is room for research - better sensors, more communications and whatnot but getting a garden variety weather satellite out just ought not to be so hard.
Maybe give it to the pros (DOD) or JPL or maybe even Elon Musk. Further, I have to believe with all the money we've spent on military satellites, they don't have spare weather sats sitting in a warehouse someone....
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In general Darkness would stand in the way of solar powered anything...
Look, let's try to keep Microsoft out of this discussion, OK?
Much, much too subtle. Try using caps next time.
Wireless has been prove to caused brain damage in kids and gender neutral. It's health impacts are hidden by legislation corporate interests who want to sterilze people with cellphones. FACT.
Could you pleas provide a SOURCE
Look around you. All of those idiots using cellphones and wireless headsets. Do you think that nature could create such fools?
It's so obvious once you open your eyes.
The economics were due in part to the air pollution controls and the fact that the older style incinerators we designed to burn everything. You need to sort through stuff carefully.
Also, you might have noticed that the economics of oil and other power sources have changed slightly since the 1990s. Still sometimes a complex decision. We looked at restarting our small municipal incinerator but the start up costs and the limited power generated made industrial composting a better solution. But for a larger area, the decision might well have gone another way.
So criminal organizations should are good and should be nurtured?
Well that's why we have elections, isn't it?
Here then, look at this neat map.
Kinda hypnotizing. (Wind map, in case anyone's scared to go there.)
Here we have some cloud and mild rain. Not exactly the end of days scenario we were told to expect.
Of course, you're in Seattle.
The Atlantic is running an short article on some old newsreels from previous NE Hurricanes (1935, 1955 and 1969).
Most interesting....
No, the value of the ISS is much, much more mundane. How to keep a gigantic pile of junk working in space. Short term flips around the moon or earth orbit are one thing, but you really have to be able to do stuff like fix something when it breaks.
The human reproduction thing will probably have to wait a while, but we can practice in the mean while.
Look at the aftershocks. Maybe you'll get lucky. Seems like the fault it really trying to dump some energy.
If I were the CIO, I'd give her an Etch-A-Sketch. Much safer. She'd likely never notice.
If you cannot do simple addition or subtraction (depending on where you live), you need more than a computer program.
The fearmongering comes from the media who don't understand anything more complex than a traffic ticket (or perhaps Brittney Spears on a good day). There was a tsunami alert for about a 100 mile stretch of coastline north and south of the quake which probably affected a thousand people at the very top end.
I'm going to bet that there are newsrooms who have the direct feeds for earthquakes and tsunamis fed into a semi automatic story generator. Get a 7+ quake and it spits out a story to somebody who doesn't think about it too carefully but dumps in on the wire. Then the Internet echo chamber has fun with it and you get this sort of over exaggeration.
I'm not sure what you're getting wound up about. I'm about 200 miles from the epicenter. We didn't get a tsunami warning but they did activate the reverse 911 system to tell people that there WASN'T a warning.
The actual warning area was quite small. The problem (if there is one) is the brain dead 'reporting' that implied that there was some sort of major quake and wave going on. We have these sorts of 'alerts' a couple of times per year and although some people get all wound up, they're the same people that cry when Lindsey Lohan gets arrested (again). The PD and fire department got about 100 calls (which swamped the single person sitting at the desk), hence the reverse 911 call.
Some people seem to live on the hair trigger edge of terminal boredom and anxiety - can't do much about them (except perhaps to disabuse them from going into the news media as a career).
If we went back to reporting earthquakes on an exponential scale then you'd have to try and teach reporters what an exponent was. That would not end well.....
Remember Rule 1 in remodels:
A poorly planned remodel costs three times as much as originally budgeted.
A well planned remodel only costs twice as much.
Well then, the Gods Must Be Crazy.
(Actually is happened to me earlier this week. I think it's Obama's fault.)
Actually works better if you read it as 'clown' services.
I wish, sincerely wish that Slashdot could manage an edit function....
Anyway, what I really wanted to point out was that observation that the US likes to mix up production and research programs. The DOD is a poster child for this (even if they're better at sat tech then NOAA). Want a new fighter? Sure, spec it out so that have the technology doesn't exist yet then get all twizzled that it doesn't get built on time or on budget. Better of making a less sexy fighter (and more of them) with current tech and keeping up the skunk works or whatever for the whizzy stuff.
Christ, the major US bomber (the B-52) is older than I am. LIkewise one of the primary cargo planes (the C-130). Somehow, even though we 'just' have 15 year old F-16's and 18's as the primary fighter we're not involved in dog fights on a weekly basis.
I suspect the same thing is happening with the weather satellites.
Keep it Simple, Stupid. More is better. Murphy hates redundancy.
Perhaps not but the US Department of Defense seems to toss up satellites with cameras on a regular basis. I'm at a bit of a loss to understand why this is so hard. The basic sensing suite should be well established by now. Satellite technology is well established. Certainly there is room for research - better sensors, more communications and whatnot but getting a garden variety weather satellite out just ought not to be so hard.
Maybe give it to the pros (DOD) or JPL or maybe even Elon Musk. Further, I have to believe with all the money we've spent on military satellites, they don't have spare weather sats sitting in a warehouse someone....
Idiot! There aren't any clouds in space!
Which is more than you can say for the moderators.
Animal Farm in not funny.
Until Netcraft confirms it.
Normal people don't post on Slashdot.
Just so you're clear on things.
(I think you are looking for the 'sig' function.)
Further, I'd recommend getting pictures of anyone attempting sexual relations with the tree. /b/ needs new stuff!
Wetsuit? Check!
Tiny board and fin? Check!
Tiny sail? Check!
Windsurfing in 40mph wind? Priceless.
Bring on FrankenSandy!
Cost to fly US Coast Guard HH-60 Jayhawk - about $4000 / hr - not so priceless.