Maybe I have made a simple math error, but from looking at data from the IPCC, the actual percentage of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is about 0.0038 (380 parts per million).
For some perspective on its effects, consider that it has risen from about 280ppm, a massive jump of 0.001%. Over the past decade, global temperature has been running about 0.5 degrees above average, or around 3.3% higher. The two decades (80-00) before that was about 0.15 degrees above average. The three decades (50-80) before that were about 0.5% below average. Over the last 40 years (70-10) carbon dioxide has risen about 1.5ppm a year.
I don't see much of a correlation there. The temperature increase is simply far too high.
Thanks for the link to the physical sciences basis. From looking there it appears they are claiming average global temperature is running about 3.3% higher than normal, and that atmospheric carbon dioxide has risen by the huge amount of 0.001%. This carbon dioxide is terrible stuff indeed, if it can have a 3300 fold affect on temperature.
I'm an earlybird, and a nightowl. In the middle of the day I tend to get really sleepy. I often wondered wether the eight hours model really fits everyone. Two sets of four hours would suit me way better. I finally did some research, and found that page pretty much by accident - the only other article that links there on Wikipedia is "Siesta".
There is an interesting drug to treat daytime sleepiness, Modafinil. There could be added effects from it - weight loss & mood elevation. Sounds too damn good to be true - or healthy.
"And why should The State meddle in setting wages and distributing wealth?"
Because otherwise the rich will screw us. Then emirgrate.
"How could we make sure The State is objective, fair and just?"
Outlaw political contributions from Corporations. Limit political contributions from individuals to a very low arbitrary amount - say 1/5th of one weeks social security. That would go a long way.
As regards your "friendly assumptions".
Tax bracket points could easily be raised yearly by the rate of inflation.
About 40 years ago the top income tax bracket in the UK was 95%. Check out the song "Taxman" by the Beatles. Guess what - No revolt.
People did not "flee in droves" or work less either. Though they would only have worked 40 hour weeks.
The intelligent questions are at http://climateaudit.org/ . Most of the trouble that came about from climategate has come from them not being answered.
"The claim is often made that climate realists (a.k.a. skeptics) cannot point to peer-reviewed papers to support their position that there is no evidence of "dangerous global warming:" caused by human emissions of so-called "greenhouse" gases, including carbon dioxide. In this pdf document, Anthony Watts has compiled a list of 450 such peer-reviewed papers."
Yeah, as soon as I connected "millimetre" & "radar". I wonder how long the thread can go without actually mentioning the book & the author./me gets his glass knife ready.
We know a hell of a lot more than that. Start here.
The IPCC figures are extremely suspect. When, for some reason, their modelling produces figures they don't like, there always seems to be an "adjustment" in their favor. There is an interesting website examining the work on global temperature mesurement, Urban Heat Islands etc somewhere, damed if i can find it though.
Have you not heard of money laundering? The "street" gangs have. They will own businesses on their turf & filter the drug profits through them. For instance, beauty parlors are popular - it's a great way to meet women...
Checking out http://www.ossur.com/prosthetics/feet who make Pistorius's feet, I can't help but wonder about what something like that could do for the able bodied. I spend all day on my feet in a warehouse, & shock absorbing speed & height increasing power boots would be really helpful. Using kinetic energy from body weight & gravity instead of muscles would mean a lot less fatigue too.
Cellulose tape is still fairly common. At least in europe, where Sellotape is the leading brand. 3M/Scotch is all plastic though. We used to use Sellotape in preference to plastic tape for packing with hand-held tape dispensers, as cellulose tape curls out, away from the body of the dispenser, but plastic tape curls in, & tends to get stuck to the dispenser.
"It doesn't make sense comparing the original sh to whatever cmd.exe XP ships with, compare cmd.exe to zsh or tcsh and then tell me it's the same functionality."
I specifically didn't. If you want the power of bash etc on M$ you install Cygwin.
My main point was that if you're familiar with both, M$ seems to be imitating the nix* CLI. FFS, I'm not saying it's better or anything.
I've used bash nearly every day for the past three years. I was compairing M$ to the bourne shell (sh) which, in it's classic implementation (such as can be found in ash, rather than bash invoked as sh) has no job control, tab completion, & history either. It's my default login shell at work, & I've used it quite a bit (before I found out someone had installed bash - I couldn't e bothered to RTFM for ksh). Everything else that you mention can be done. "&","|", & ">" work exactly as you would expect (not "
As for the "crackmonkeys" you mention, you're lucky they didn't mod you down as flamebait.
The same old command line? Somebody go tell this guy that linux (or any unix variant) doesn't have the same old command line as Windows. It's so obvious that they are different that I'm not going to type about it anymore
I wonder how much you've used the M$ CLI. The nomenclature may be different, but the similarities surprised me - I expect that lots of it was actually copied from unix, given the time frame it was created in. I can't think of anything I can do with a Bourne shell (admittedly a limited example) that I can't do with M$.
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The cardboard cartons are probably lined with BPA plastic too.
I haven't seen any iPad users mention anything at all about altruism and kindness in their attempts to refute the "selfish elites" tag.
My understanding is that 95% of the greenhouse effect is from water vapor, and that carbon dioxide accounts for about 1/3 of the remaining 5%.
Maybe I have made a simple math error, but from looking at data from the IPCC, the actual percentage of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is about 0.0038 (380 parts per million).
For some perspective on its effects, consider that it has risen from about 280ppm, a massive jump of 0.001%. Over the past decade, global temperature has been running about 0.5 degrees above average, or around 3.3% higher. The two decades (80-00) before that was about 0.15 degrees above average. The three decades (50-80) before that were about 0.5% below average. Over the last 40 years (70-10) carbon dioxide has risen about 1.5ppm a year.
I don't see much of a correlation there. The temperature increase is simply far too high.
Thanks for the link to the physical sciences basis. From looking there it appears they are claiming average global temperature is running about 3.3% higher than normal, and that atmospheric carbon dioxide has risen by the huge amount of 0.001%. This carbon dioxide is terrible stuff indeed, if it can have a 3300 fold affect on temperature.
Article From WikipediaModafinil
I'm an earlybird, and a nightowl. In the middle of the day I tend to get really sleepy. I often wondered wether the eight hours model really fits everyone. Two sets of four hours would suit me way better. I finally did some research, and found that page pretty much by accident - the only other article that links there on Wikipedia is "Siesta".
There is an interesting drug to treat daytime sleepiness, Modafinil. There could be added effects from it - weight loss & mood elevation. Sounds too damn good to be true - or healthy.
"And why should The State meddle in setting wages and distributing wealth?" Because otherwise the rich will screw us. Then emirgrate. "How could we make sure The State is objective, fair and just?" Outlaw political contributions from Corporations. Limit political contributions from individuals to a very low arbitrary amount - say 1/5th of one weeks social security. That would go a long way. As regards your "friendly assumptions". Tax bracket points could easily be raised yearly by the rate of inflation. About 40 years ago the top income tax bracket in the UK was 95%. Check out the song "Taxman" by the Beatles. Guess what - No revolt. People did not "flee in droves" or work less either. Though they would only have worked 40 hour weeks.
The intelligent questions are at http://climateaudit.org/ . Most of the trouble that came about from climategate has come from them not being answered.
"In other words, guilds bear a pretty piss-poor correlation to street gangs, compared to just about any small real-world organization."
You would have to compare street gangs to "Hard Core" guilds. They are comparing one standard deviation to the entire bell curve.
From the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition:
"The claim is often made that climate realists (a.k.a. skeptics) cannot point to peer-reviewed papers to support their position that there is no evidence of "dangerous global warming:" caused by human emissions of so-called "greenhouse" gases, including carbon dioxide. In this pdf document, Anthony Watts has compiled a list of 450 such peer-reviewed papers."
http://nzclimatescience.net/images/PDFs/450_peer_reviewed_papers.pdf
MORE ON NIWA'S ADJUSTMENT OF TEMPERATURES OF NEW ZEALAND WEATHER SITES http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=554&Itemid=1
Yeah, as soon as I connected "millimetre" & "radar". I wonder how long the thread can go without actually mentioning the book & the author. /me gets his glass knife ready.
http://www.climateaudit.org/
The IPCC figures are extremely suspect. When, for some reason, their modelling produces figures they don't like, there always seems to be an "adjustment" in their favor. There is an interesting website examining the work on global temperature mesurement, Urban Heat Islands etc somewhere, damed if i can find it though.
Have you not heard of money laundering? The "street" gangs have. They will own businesses on their turf & filter the drug profits through them. For instance, beauty parlors are popular - it's a great way to meet women...
Yeah, look at gladwell. Far more to the book than the summary & article mention.
Flip comment = (Score:5, Insightful). Only on /.
"Nobody says that climate change isn't happening. The temperature data is fact. It can't be denied any more than it can denied that the sky is blue."
All that temperature data tells us is that temperatures have risen At Thermometers. GLOBAL WARMING SCIENCE HAS MOVED ON.
Checking out http://www.ossur.com/prosthetics/feet who make Pistorius's feet, I can't help but wonder about what something like that could do for the able bodied. I spend all day on my feet in a warehouse, & shock absorbing speed & height increasing power boots would be really helpful. Using kinetic energy from body weight & gravity instead of muscles would mean a lot less fatigue too.
The research was flawed in the first place. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=238617&cid=195 29259 quotes http://epw.senate.gov/fact.cfm?party=rep&id=259323 . ''Oreskes entire argument is flawed as the whole ISI data set includes just 13 abstracts (less than 2%) that explicitly endorse what she has called the 'consensus view'''.
There is a lot of dissent if you actually look for it. http://www.climatescience.org.nz/ http://www.co2science.org/
Cellulose tape is still fairly common. At least in europe, where Sellotape is the leading brand. 3M/Scotch is all plastic though. We used to use Sellotape in preference to plastic tape for packing with hand-held tape dispensers, as cellulose tape curls out, away from the body of the dispenser, but plastic tape curls in, & tends to get stuck to the dispenser.
I specifically didn't. If you want the power of bash etc on M$ you install Cygwin.
My main point was that if you're familiar with both, M$ seems to be imitating the nix* CLI. FFS, I'm not saying it's better or anything.
The Windows NT Command Shell.
I wonder how much you know about nix*.
I've used bash nearly every day for the past three years. I was compairing M$ to the bourne shell (sh) which, in it's classic implementation (such as can be found in ash, rather than bash invoked as sh) has no job control, tab completion, & history either. It's my default login shell at work, & I've used it quite a bit (before I found out someone had installed bash - I couldn't e bothered to RTFM for ksh). Everything else that you mention can be done. "&" ,"|", & ">" work exactly as you would expect (not "
As for the "crackmonkeys" you mention, you're lucky they didn't mod you down as flamebait.
I wonder how much you've used the M$ CLI. The nomenclature may be different, but the similarities surprised me - I expect that lots of it was actually copied from unix, given the time frame it was created in. I can't think of anything I can do with a Bourne shell (admittedly a limited example) that I can't do with M$.