What makes it possible to extract energy from food is the extreme unlikelihood of finding something easily oxidized and lots of oxygen in the same place. Enthalpy. Gibbs free energy. Not potential energy. Potential energy is when you drop a can on your foot.
Not that actual, you know, thermodynamics, belongs anywhere near an AGW discussion.
As a result of the 1971 SCOTUS decision http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co it's extremely dangerous to an employer to use perceived aptitude in hiring decisions. The gap has been filled by wasting 4+ years out of the life of all kinds of people (with no interest in learning per se) who need a certificate of aptitude that is immune to discrimination lawsuits. The badges are designed to serve the same need. Let competition roll!
I see that protectionism is something you are against, as am I. Hail fellow, well met!
Do you agree with me that no moral case can be made for further impoverishing workers in poor countries to further enrich incredibly rich (by world standards) US union members?
It's not that I don't get the politics of protectionism, I just have this little conscience problem when I consider the big picture.
Over a period of decades, a brand can cultivate a reputation for fairness and accuracy, and thereby develop a very valuable property. But proud brands fall on hard times, and wind up in the hands of MBAs who know how to mine the residual value as they (as a direct result) become completely worthless. HP, anyone?
In the end caveat emptor rules. That said, the formal study of rhetoric as a branch of logic is very helpful in diagnosing the quality of arguments. And anyone who disagrees with me is a big fat (ad hominem) meanie, and I'll punch (ad baculam) them right in the lip if they don't shut up. And I hope you'll forgive my (appeal to sympathy) if I indulge in a completely worthless (argumentum ad verecundiam) display of obsolete erudition tokens in hopes of bolstering my argument...
Honestly though, "I see what you did there" is a much funner reaction to bafflegab than "hunh?". As someone once more or less said, you can't be ignorant and free. Keep your powder dry, I hear there're Sophists at large...
Reality is what doesn't go away if you don't believe in it, but we s/are/have been/ rich enough to base our decisions on moonbeams and pixie dust, for a while. And the end of that while is hard upon us. I predict valuing truth over truthiness will be more common post-Reckoning.
Well, there used to be this thing call "journalism". See, first you make up a story that Advances The Narrative, then you create evidence for it (in a font that wasn't invented at the time it was supposed to happen), and then you're Dan Rather. Truthiness rules!
Snark aside, the rules of the Old Journalism worked moderately well when they were followed. I think our current chaotic information pool will improve in quality as honest brokers of info bundling and verification services emerge and thus develop a reputation. Which will make them powerful, and interesting targets for corruption... Big wheel keeps on turnin'.
Your point on competition is well taken. It's unconscionable that our people should have to compete with, as you term them, "disposable" small brown people. So which do you favor? Genocide or Empire?
Inconceivably? Not only doesn't that word mean what you think it means, neither do rather a lot of the other words you're using.
When you set out to grind the Philistine to dust beneath the shiny wheels of your half-apprehended vocabulary, it helps to be absolutely correct in your usage; to sound, as it were, more like a Buckley and less like a self-educated cellblock Socrates.
Brittain, Bardeen & Schockley would be really pissed to hear themselves called engineers. (Did you know Schockley was a nasty racist in his spare time? Fact.)
I'll give you this much, you've got that self-esteem thing licked all to hell and gone!
On my planet, some dude wrote a book called "The Wealth of Nations" a couple hundred years back, and since then "losing jobs to India" has sounded kind of tardulent. Learn how to compete.
Cloud cuckoo land? Precisely right. I read her blog posting and some of the comments. Her cognitive community Believes In Karma. Somewhere amongst the four forces there lurks a cosmic accountant. OK, whatever. In my universe, reality is a bitch. It probably takes her and me to make a society. I think she's an idiot, she thinks I'm a brute. Oh well.
Did Tina Fey tell you that she could see stupid and ignorant from the Tea Party?
Looting has been tried before, Skippy. Sooner or later you run out of other people's money, and then there's hell to pay. There's more to macroeconomics than "you've got it, I want it, hand it over" class warfare. Read some Bastiat.
I happen to be gravitationally challenged, you insensitive clod! Neither "shrink" nor "edge" apply to me. But my very first IT job was running a card sorter....
There's a critical difference.The straw enterprise is C02-neutral on an annualized basis. The carbon in the straw was C02 a year ago. And now it's C02 again, big deal.
There are hazardous substances associated with most every form of energy generation. There's U, Th, K40 and other radionuclides in a coal smokestack. The emissions from a coal plant would get a nuclear plant shut down instantly. There would be mass evacuations if enough radiation leaked from a nuclear plant to be comparable to the everyday background in Denver. And don't even get me started on the DHMO hazards associated with hydroelectric power. That stuff kills thousands in the US every year.
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What makes it possible to extract energy from food is the extreme unlikelihood of finding something easily oxidized and lots of oxygen in the same place. Enthalpy. Gibbs free energy. Not potential energy. Potential energy is when you drop a can on your foot.
Not that actual, you know, thermodynamics, belongs anywhere near an AGW discussion.
As a result of the 1971 SCOTUS decision http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co it's extremely dangerous to an employer to use perceived aptitude in hiring decisions. The gap has been filled by wasting 4+ years out of the life of all kinds of people (with no interest in learning per se) who need a certificate of aptitude that is immune to discrimination lawsuits. The badges are designed to serve the same need. Let competition roll!
I see that protectionism is something you are against, as am I. Hail fellow, well met!
Do you agree with me that no moral case can be made for further impoverishing workers in poor countries to further enrich incredibly rich (by world standards) US union members?
It's not that I don't get the politics of protectionism, I just have this little conscience problem when I consider the big picture.
Obviously because my Latin-fu is weak!
Over a period of decades, a brand can cultivate a reputation for fairness and accuracy, and thereby develop a very valuable property. But proud brands fall on hard times, and wind up in the hands of MBAs who know how to mine the residual value as they (as a direct result) become completely worthless. HP, anyone?
In the end caveat emptor rules. That said, the formal study of rhetoric as a branch of logic is very helpful in diagnosing the quality of arguments. And anyone who disagrees with me is a big fat (ad hominem) meanie, and I'll punch (ad baculam) them right in the lip if they don't shut up. And I hope you'll forgive my (appeal to sympathy) if I indulge in a completely worthless (argumentum ad verecundiam) display of obsolete erudition tokens in hopes of bolstering my argument...
Honestly though, "I see what you did there" is a much funner reaction to bafflegab than "hunh?". As someone once more or less said, you can't be ignorant and free. Keep your powder dry, I hear there're Sophists at large...
Reality is what doesn't go away if you don't believe in it, but we s/are/have been/ rich enough to base our decisions on moonbeams and pixie dust, for a while. And the end of that while is hard upon us. I predict valuing truth over truthiness will be more common post-Reckoning.
Well, there used to be this thing call "journalism". See, first you make up a story that Advances The Narrative, then you create evidence for it (in a font that wasn't invented at the time it was supposed to happen), and then you're Dan Rather. Truthiness rules!
Snark aside, the rules of the Old Journalism worked moderately well when they were followed. I think our current chaotic information pool will improve in quality as honest brokers of info bundling and verification services emerge and thus develop a reputation. Which will make them powerful, and interesting targets for corruption... Big wheel keeps on turnin'.
Your point on competition is well taken. It's unconscionable that our people should have to compete with, as you term them, "disposable" small brown people. So which do you favor? Genocide or Empire?
There was a specific moment when it became advantageous for employers to outsource aptitude testing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.
Inconceivably? Not only doesn't that word mean what you think it means, neither do rather a lot of the other words you're using.
When you set out to grind the Philistine to dust beneath the shiny wheels of your half-apprehended vocabulary, it helps to be absolutely correct in your usage; to sound, as it were, more like a Buckley and less like a self-educated cellblock Socrates.
Brittain, Bardeen & Schockley would be really pissed to hear themselves called engineers. (Did you know Schockley was a nasty racist in his spare time? Fact.)
I'll give you this much, you've got that self-esteem thing licked all to hell and gone!
Stupid old people advocating policies that not only don't favor them as a class but might even hurt them as a class. Whatever can they be thinking of?
Maybe Stewart, Colbert, and (now with extra class!) Jimmy Fallon can explain it all to us poor senile fools, your grandparents.
Props, you sound like someone worth listening to. What are you doing here?
However, in harness with competition, it beats command and control all to hell, without piling up hundreds of millions of corpses.
On my planet, some dude wrote a book called "The Wealth of Nations" a couple hundred years back, and since then "losing jobs to India" has sounded kind of tardulent. Learn how to compete.
Recently got hired after 6 weeks of unemployment at a 20% raise from my previous gig. I'm 63. I sent out 3 resumes.
Cloud cuckoo land? Precisely right. I read her blog posting and some of the comments. Her cognitive community Believes In Karma. Somewhere amongst the four forces there lurks a cosmic accountant. OK, whatever. In my universe, reality is a bitch. It probably takes her and me to make a society. I think she's an idiot, she thinks I'm a brute. Oh well.
Did Tina Fey tell you that she could see stupid and ignorant from the Tea Party?
Looting has been tried before, Skippy. Sooner or later you run out of other people's money, and then there's hell to pay. There's more to macroeconomics than "you've got it, I want it, hand it over" class warfare. Read some Bastiat.
Heh. I wrote that program sometime in 1976, target was DEC RSTS Basic. It helped me squeeze more function into a rather limited amount of memory.
The science is open source. But the raw data has been "lost"...
Sadly, licensed dietitians aren't particularly interested in devaluing their credential.
I love it when you guys get classy!
Freud was a coke fiend. With his buddy Fleiss, the nose fetishist. Honest, I couldn't make this up.
I happen to be gravitationally challenged, you insensitive clod! Neither "shrink" nor "edge" apply to me. But my very first IT job was running a card sorter....
There's a critical difference.The straw enterprise is C02-neutral on an annualized basis. The carbon in the straw was C02 a year ago. And now it's C02 again, big deal.
There are hazardous substances associated with most every form of energy generation. There's U, Th, K40 and other radionuclides in a coal smokestack. The emissions from a coal plant would get a nuclear plant shut down instantly. There would be mass evacuations if enough radiation leaked from a nuclear plant to be comparable to the everyday background in Denver. And don't even get me started on the DHMO hazards associated with hydroelectric power. That stuff kills thousands in the US every year.
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olderphart
"disjointed ramblings since - Get off my lawn!"