and the bulk of the population believes him to be insane due to the crap Murdoch generates about him specifically because he can't be bought.
No, the majority find Ron Paul insane for his work on a racist newsletter and his advocacy of the gold standard, neither of which has anything to do with Murdoch.
It's positive feedback over some range (less ice -> more heat absorbed by water). If the Arctic ever becomes ice free, then the feedback loop stops. How much this would increase the earth's temperature I don't know.
I wasn't denying that. I just wanted to point out that CO2 was a small part of the atmosphere, as I believed that the person to whom I responded thought otherwise.
0.001 kg x (3 x 10^8 m/s)^2 is 9 x 10^13 Joules. A Joules is a watt-second, and a year is about 3 x 10^7 seconds. If we have a 100-watt bulb, we could power it for 9 x 10^11 seconds, which is closer to 30,000 years. A pound of matter would power it for about 13.6 million years (1 lb. = 454 g).
Air is the name given to atmosphere used in breathing and photosynthesis. Dry air contains roughly (by volume) 78.09% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.039% carbon dioxide, and small amounts of other gases.
The cartoon on 1/27/12 was numbered 1009. This means that that cartoon was 708 cartoons ago. There are three xkcd cartoons a week, which puts it 236 weeks ago. That is about four years and 28 weeks ago, which would put it roughly July of 2007.
I don't know that I would have expressed this the way the GP did, but SuricouRaven is correct. Given a nonzero, time-limited signal, its Fourier transform can not be band limited, and vice versa.
If you weren't made of meat, perhaps the thing you think is a universal constant would be a variable. You can't actually know, because individual humans by definition cannot attain objectivity; it can only be approximated.
If objectivity can only be approximated, how do we know that your definitions are correct?
Limits on your perception and comprehension can be demonstrated to exist, therefore you can't know what all the limitations of the external universe are for certain
But one of the ways of thinking about Heisenberg uncertainty involves how we interact with particles. We would like to use particles that are both low energy (to not greatly affect the momentum of the particle we're trying to observe) and low wavelength (to get a better fix on its position). We just don't have such particles, at least not yet.
U.N. inspectors had identified many United States manufactured items that had been exported from the United States to Iraq under licenses issued by the Department of Commerce, and [established] that these items were used to further Iraq's chemical and nuclear weapons development and its missile delivery system development programs.... The executive branch of our government approved 771 different export licenses for sale of dual-use technology to Iraq. I think that is a devastating record.
Since companies do not pay dividends the people who own the stocks do not make a single cent on the stock they purchase.
Actually, Microsoft declared a $0.20 dividend per common share in October. Over four quarters, that would be $0.80 a share. The stock price is in the high 20s, so that is about a 3% annual return.
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Using the words "Slashdot" and "proofread" in the same sentence? You must be new here.
The Confederacy was occupied from 1865-1877. Atlanta and Columbia (SC) suffered some damage from Union forces.
So making anti-black statements and demanding a gold standard are somehow a criticism of Murdoch?
and the bulk of the population believes him to be insane due to the crap Murdoch generates about him specifically because he can't be bought.
No, the majority find Ron Paul insane for his work on a racist newsletter and his advocacy of the gold standard, neither of which has anything to do with Murdoch.
It's positive feedback over some range (less ice -> more heat absorbed by water). If the Arctic ever becomes ice free, then the feedback loop stops. How much this would increase the earth's temperature I don't know.
I wasn't denying that. I just wanted to point out that CO2 was a small part of the atmosphere, as I believed that the person to whom I responded thought otherwise.
0.001 kg x (3 x 10^8 m/s)^2 is 9 x 10^13 Joules. A Joules is a watt-second, and a year is about 3 x 10^7 seconds. If we have a 100-watt bulb, we could power it for 9 x 10^11 seconds, which is closer to 30,000 years. A pound of matter would power it for about 13.6 million years (1 lb. = 454 g).
An inch is 25.4 mm, 40 mm is about 1.6 inches.
As a matter of personal interest, what positive feedback would contribute to a runaway effect of temperature rise?
If the Arctic Ocean remains ice-free year round, then it will absorb more heat than when the ice reflects it away.
The person to whom I responded also included Facebook, Yahoo, and Oracle with Microsoft. That's leaving too many companies off the list.
I agree that such collusion is not a good idea.
Hell, I don't even like Microsoft so insert your own other favorite company if you hate them so much.
I didn't mean to show hatred of Microsoft, well not in that post. :-)
Not according to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air
The cartoon on 1/27/12 was numbered 1009. This means that that cartoon was 708 cartoons ago. There are three xkcd cartoons a week, which puts it 236 weeks ago. That is about four years and 28 weeks ago, which would put it roughly July of 2007.
The article to which I linked also discusses limits on the electromagnetic spectrum. How do you intend to improve that?
Is funding Siri such a good idea?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/apples-siri-threatens-to-damage-cellphone-service-for-all/2012/01/23/gIQAZ1O5TQ_story.html
Of course, that goes the other way around. What is to stop Microsoft from poaching Google's employees?
Only if I had a significant charge.
I don't know that I would have expressed this the way the GP did, but SuricouRaven is correct. Given a nonzero, time-limited signal, its Fourier transform can not be band limited, and vice versa.
If you weren't made of meat, perhaps the thing you think is a universal constant would be a variable. You can't actually know, because individual humans by definition cannot attain objectivity; it can only be approximated.
If objectivity can only be approximated, how do we know that your definitions are correct?
Limits on your perception and comprehension can be demonstrated to exist, therefore you can't know what all the limitations of the external universe are for certain
But one of the ways of thinking about Heisenberg uncertainty involves how we interact with particles. We would like to use particles that are both low energy (to not greatly affect the momentum of the particle we're trying to observe) and low wavelength (to get a better fix on its position). We just don't have such particles, at least not yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_war#Chemical_and_Biological_exports
Emphasis added.
Of course we knew that Iraq had chemical weapons; we sold them to Iraq.
Clinton was too busy with other things to worry about the war that was running throughout the eight years of his administration.
What war was this? Iran/Iraq was so 80s!
Having 2 GB cost $30 does no good for people whose computers could only handle three 256 megabyte RAM cards.
Since companies do not pay dividends the people who own the stocks do not make a single cent on the stock they purchase.
Actually, Microsoft declared a $0.20 dividend per common share in October. Over four quarters, that would be $0.80 a share. The stock price is in the high 20s, so that is about a 3% annual return.
And why do you believe that Windows/Apple/BSD admins are more professional?
I wasn't really trying to debate criminology. I was just questining OP's use of "directly".
Wouldn't that make the amount of crime inversely proportional to the length of prison sentences?
How well does a .22 penetrate car windows/doors?