The world had a lot more trees before we showed up and cut them down. Said trees don't stand up to a tsunami and in some cases are larger than a box car.
A tree in an ocean will rapidly absorb water, and then sink like a stone and rot without getting far.
Treated wood won't absorb nearly as much water as quickly, won't rot either, and will float across the ocean with passengers.
Grab a chunk of natural, untreated wood and leave it in water for a few months. It'll absorb water and sink like a rock, then it'll rot. It's not going to be carrying passengers across an ocean, unlike treated everything-proof wood you'd use on a ship or a dock.
1. I said it's gerrymandered, I didn't say the Conservatives were the ones who did it, just that they're the ones benefiting from it.
2. Three-way-race? You are obviously not looking at Saskatchewan election results. There is not a single riding where the 3rd place party was anywhere close and only 4 where the 2nd place was fairly close. The remainder had the Conservatives getting 1.5-3x as many votes as the next candidate.
That might be true but my numbers are from the time Harper got elected. All the numbers were in the newspaper all over the country. Your numbers might be from today cause no way it was from that time...hell no.
As are mine. My 32.3% figure is from the last election.
It's rather the "west side" of Canada that is to blame if we got these kinds of lay because they mostly voted for the conservative party.
Saskatchewan is solid blue because the federal ridings are gerrymandered to hell and gone. the NDP voters in Regina and Saskatoon are divided up and lumped in with conservative voting rural areas. In Saskatchewan, the NDP got 32.3% of the votes and 0% of the seats.
Impractical at present. Fuel cells require extremely high purity methane and the equipment to purify random natural gas or decomposition gas is expensive.
Just burning the stuff in an ordinary generator is way better in terms of return on investment.
jms isn't getting paid regardless. B5 has a wicked case of Hollywood accounting.
JMS on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, Feb 26, 2005
That's the great irony of the situation. The criteria told to us right up front while we were producing B5 was that each of the series on PTEN had to show a profit *in that year* in order to stay on the air and be renewed. So we'd have these meetings with studio heads who were congratulating us on how much money the show was making for them (again, while we were still making for it), and then look at me, realize what they'd said, and hurriedly add, "Though technically we're still in the red."
The show, all in, cost about $110 million to make. Each year of its original run, we know it showed a profit because they TOLD us so. And in one case, they actually showed us the figures. It's now been on the air worldwide for ten years. There's been merchandise, syndication, cable, books, you name it. The DVDs grossed roughly half a BILLION dollars (and that was just after they put out S5, without all of the S5 sales in).
So what does my last profit statement say? We're $80 million in the red. Basically, by the terms of my contract, if a set on a WB movie burns down in Botswana, they can charge it against B5's profits..
If one is pursuing a scientific course, who cares what everyone ranging from Fundamentalist Christians to the Hare Krishnas believe or say on the subject?
Because they vote. They vote early, often, and in unified groups, and thus they affect government, which then directly affects scientific funding and the operation of universities and other places of research and indirectly affect them via earlier learning.
(and you probably know this, but some people think evolution literally means descended from apes)
No, under taxonomic classification, that ancestor would have been a member of the Hominidae family, and thus a great ape. Any human ancestor dating back to about 15 million years ago (When great apes and lesser apes speciated) would be classified as such.
There's thousands of questions like that which can't ever really be answered by eveolution. The only answer evolution can ever possibly come up with is "well it just happened that way, it's chance".
Not quite right. The answer evolution comes up with "Said aspect came into being randomly and was at the time more beneficial to survival in the conditions of the time than the alternatives extant at the time, and thus the individuals with that aspect out-reproduced those that didn't have it.".
And after we go through the kicking, screaming, hair pulling, and chair throwing to reclaim those blocks, it would push back exhaustion by about 15 months at best and then we're out again.
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The world had a lot more trees before we showed up and cut them down. Said trees don't stand up to a tsunami and in some cases are larger than a box car.
A tree in an ocean will rapidly absorb water, and then sink like a stone and rot without getting far.
Treated wood won't absorb nearly as much water as quickly, won't rot either, and will float across the ocean with passengers.
Grab a chunk of natural, untreated wood and leave it in water for a few months. It'll absorb water and sink like a rock, then it'll rot. It's not going to be carrying passengers across an ocean, unlike treated everything-proof wood you'd use on a ship or a dock.
I've worked in IT for years in various functions. I do not trust computers to drive my car for me.
You've worked in IT for years in various functions and you still trust people to drive cars?
1. I said it's gerrymandered, I didn't say the Conservatives were the ones who did it, just that they're the ones benefiting from it.
2. Three-way-race? You are obviously not looking at Saskatchewan election results. There is not a single riding where the 3rd place party was anywhere close and only 4 where the 2nd place was fairly close. The remainder had the Conservatives getting 1.5-3x as many votes as the next candidate.
That might be true but my numbers are from the time Harper got elected. All the numbers were in the newspaper all over the country. Your numbers might be from today cause no way it was from that time...hell no.
As are mine. My 32.3% figure is from the last election.
It's rather the "west side" of Canada that is to blame if we got these kinds of lay because they mostly voted for the conservative party.
Saskatchewan is solid blue because the federal ridings are gerrymandered to hell and gone. the NDP voters in Regina and Saskatoon are divided up and lumped in with conservative voting rural areas. In Saskatchewan, the NDP got 32.3% of the votes and 0% of the seats.
And I can also see a huge amount of consumer type stuff taking years before it has transitioned. IPv4 isn't going to go away overnight.
And the trees will take 20 years to grow, which is why we need to start immediately.
IPv6 is the final solution to the NAT question.
Now we just need a cure to the people who have been beating their heads against a wall long enough that they think that NAT is/was a good thing.
I'd be looking at huge caching servers first.
Unlikely to happen because the copyright holders of the online textbooks, etc. will pitch a fit over the loss of control that would mean.
That's 2KW averaged throughout the day, including the ~1/3rd of the day when everyone is asleep.
You'd need a sizable capacitor or battery to handle peaking.
Impractical at present. Fuel cells require extremely high purity methane and the equipment to purify random natural gas or decomposition gas is expensive.
Just burning the stuff in an ordinary generator is way better in terms of return on investment.
as that means he (and others) don't get paid.
jms isn't getting paid regardless. B5 has a wicked case of Hollywood accounting.
JMS on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, Feb 26, 2005
That's the great irony of the situation. The criteria told to us right up front while we were producing B5 was that each of the series on PTEN had to show a profit *in that year* in order to stay on the air and be renewed. So we'd have these meetings with studio heads who were congratulating us on how much money the show was making for them (again, while we were still making for it), and then look at me, realize what they'd said, and hurriedly add, "Though technically we're
still in the red."
The show, all in, cost about $110 million to make. Each year of its original run, we know it showed a profit because they TOLD us so. And in one case, they actually showed us the figures. It's now been on the air worldwide for ten years. There's been merchandise, syndication, cable, books, you name it. The DVDs grossed roughly half a BILLION dollars (and that was just after they put out S5, without all of the S5 sales in).
So what does my last profit statement say? We're $80 million in the red. Basically, by the terms of my contract, if a set on a WB movie burns down in Botswana, they can charge it against B5's profits..
ack, should be lose.
You loose your one chance to do all the things your non-existent god prohibits for no good reason.
It's not exactly a new name. As a surname, it dates back to at least the 18th century.
And now they're bringing in JP Morgan and RBC to do a strategic review of the company.
Maybe they can still salvage things.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05/29/rim-shares-halted-jpmorgan-rbc_n_1553968.html
If one is pursuing a scientific course, who cares what everyone ranging from Fundamentalist Christians to the Hare Krishnas believe or say on the subject?
Because they vote. They vote early, often, and in unified groups, and thus they affect government, which then directly affects scientific funding and the operation of universities and other places of research and indirectly affect them via earlier learning.
It will end when the older generations die off. Newer generations will either be non-believing or be able to reconcile science and their faith.
I think you underestimate the effectiveness of early-age indoctrination.
and yes, my great^50000 grandfather was an ape
No, he was not. He was an ancestor to an ape.
(and you probably know this, but some people think evolution literally means descended from apes)
No, under taxonomic classification, that ancestor would have been a member of the Hominidae family, and thus a great ape. Any human ancestor dating back to about 15 million years ago (When great apes and lesser apes speciated) would be classified as such.
I would think he's referring to the KJV, which a lot of sects treat as the One True Word of God for some reason, rather than the bible in general.
A fatal mistake? How will this opinion cause someone's death?
By throwing a fatal error and terminating.
Ah but those people are not politically relevant or culturally influential, other than being laughed at.
The 40% of the population of the USA who believe in literal creationism are not politically relevant?
There's thousands of questions like that which can't ever really be answered by eveolution. The only answer evolution can ever possibly come up with is "well it just happened that way, it's chance".
Not quite right. The answer evolution comes up with "Said aspect came into being randomly and was at the time more beneficial to survival in the conditions of the time than the alternatives extant at the time, and thus the individuals with that aspect out-reproduced those that didn't have it.".
And after we go through the kicking, screaming, hair pulling, and chair throwing to reclaim those blocks, it would push back exhaustion by about 15 months at best and then we're out again.
Nah, it'll take you at least 16 minutes to hit the cap.