Seems like putting all your eggs in a single basket is maybe not the best solution.
Since seeds are cheap why not distribute storage repositories around the globe?
Nonetheless I am thankful that the Norwegians are doing this for potentially all of humanity.
Come to think about it, I suppose the fact that our collective genome is stuck on this planet is akin to putting all your eggs in a single fragile basket.
At one time I did some work for a company that uses a purely passive (no battery) RFID inside the cow.
They embed a temperature a/d device within a microchip RFID to provide identification along with accurate body temperature measurement. The device is packaged in a bolus that sits in the cow rumen. When the cow walks by a reader board the id and temperature is transmitted. The cool thing is that the device is energized by the reader board so that no battery is required.
I know it may sound odd but just to get access to the list of software that is "approved" is a lesson in bureaucratic absurdity; forget actually submitting something to get "approved".
What is even more ridiculus is that users had to sign a form saying you would not install any software not on the list - yes, the list you cannot see without significant fortitude in dealing with out-of-control, out-of-touch bureaucracy!
The list is a joke, however. For example most software is approved only at some earlier release point. When Firefox was at v1.4 only v1.0.5 was approved. They probably have MySql 3.1 and Perl 5.6 approved by now.
Yes, NMCI is Microsoft all the way or it is the highway. It is ironic that an organization that is suppose to protect a market driven economy, freedom and apple pie has taken a centralized (communist) one-size-fits-all anti-competitive monoculture approach to handling its IT.
Not only that the framers of the NMCI contract were apparently unable to distinguish between the needs of word processing secaterial pools, powerpoint obsessed managers, and cutting edge research and development engineers.
Fortunately, most research labs keep their "legacy networks" in place or we would be on par with the Islamic terrorist with respect to information technology - maybe we could both agree to have an Outlook/Project/PowerPoint war. Unfortunately now the research labs fund two different networks, everybody has two computers on their desks and we have two vulnerability fronts - NMCI and Legacy. I wish some fraud, waste and abuse watchdog organization would get a hold of this and publicize the travesty.
You conviently ignored explaining angular unconformities. I like angular uncomformities as a demonstration of old earth as you can walk right up to them and see them with your own eyes and there is little room for "interperation".
A flood very well explains marine deposits thousands of feet above sea level.
I can see that you are not up on the creationist literature. Creationist employ a mechanism called hydrological sorting to explain the sorting that is seen in the fossil record. For example why are no large modern mammal fossils found with dinosaur fossils. You are proposing the opposite of hyrdrological sorting where things are all mixed up and marine fossils are sitting on top of mountains. If that was the case then why not a single instance of a primate fossil in the same bed with a dinosaur? Also keep in mind many of these high elevation beds have signs of Bioturbation. These indications are present over many feet indicating that these organism where not buried and deposited but living in an slowly accumalating depositional zone.
You also ignored the fact that the Grand Canyon is layered with rock of different origins - limestone, sandstone, shale, igneous. How are these layed down by a single super flood. Some of these a layers are cross bedded sandstone, some are wind blown, some have raindrop marks, some have animal tracks and some have fossils.
More example of old earth? Magnetic reversals demonstrated on the spreading seafloor. Documenting long periods of time catching the reversal of the earths magnetic dipole as molten rock is layed down on the seafloor. Or how about ice core samples documenting seasonal transitions tens to several hundred thousands of years. Or large and thick geological deposits that consist primarily of tiny organism fossils such as diotomaceous chert, chalk and many limestones. Or layering of basalt with deposition in between. For example in which one of the these layers represents the global flood.
There sure is some willful denial going on here. I recommend you do some study and scratch in the earth yourself instead of just believing what supports your preconcieved notions and suppositions.
You are not worth debating this because you ignore the hard parts and spout off on tangents. For example you say For anyone to claim that such an event that from a physics standpoint probably cannot be measured or fathomed Are you saying that the flood existed outside of physics? Believe me if you look at the events that occur out in the cosmos such as supernova, solar flares, black holes, star collisions, planet collisions, a flood on a small planet is a tiny event by comparison.
It is you that shrinks God down to puny human size by having to believe in a creation story that a child can see as a fairy story a metaphor at best. Present day young earthers are akin to flat earthers or those who had to believe in geocentric earth. The concept of the earth rotating around the sun was at one time heresy. Good day.
Since Murphy works in space as well as earth, this time there will be a metric to english units conversion problem and they will miss the moon altogether.
I say buy the parcel of land at the bottom of the 100ft dropoff and set up an auto wrecking yard. Put up sign half way down - "Welcome to Crackpot Auto Wrecking"
i think a Dawkins quote applies here "'Show me a cultural relativist at thirty thousand feet and I'll show you a hypocrite. Airplanes are built according to scientific principals and they work. They stay aloft and they get you to a chosen destination. Airplanes built to tribal or mythological specifications such as the dummy planes of the Cargo cults in jungle clearings or the bees-waxed wings of Icaraus don't.'"
There parent post was talking about reality - you are talking about subjective truth relative systems that don't equate.
As databases such as MySQL, MS SQL and PostgreSQL and others keep adding features and performance the RDBMS are becoming more and more of a commodity market. To be expected.
I would hazard a guess that you have not spent anytime on aljazeera.com.
It is not so much what they print as what they do not. Most anything negative to arab and muslim culture is routinely ignored or under reported.
For example, all through the cartoon protest aljazeera published scant little. They did not report ludicrious quotes from leaders like the Iranian Ayatollha who proclaimed the cartoons were a "jewish conspiracy". You did not see them mention that the most offensive cartoons were not drawn by the Danish cartoonist but were added by a Danish Imam to further inflame the faithful.
You will not find any mention of the travesty that is Sudan were torture and rape occur daily by arab islamic militia's. They ignore reporting sewerside bombings but will report in detail if an Israel soldiers roughs up a teenager. But you will find articles like "U.S. army accepts more "flawed" recruits".
No details on how this works but can turn loose a perl/lwp script and let it run all night and wake up a winner! Something tells me they have thought of this angle.
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O.K. so you are not using new lines and threw in a regular expression to make things look difficult. What is your point? I can gen up an equally obtuse statement in C and C++.
The article Tragedy of the Commons addresses the economics of common usage resources and over population was only one aspect of the article. The author, Garrett Hardin, makes no dated predictions but was defining an aspect of human behavior and economic reality when a "commons" is a resource used as though it belongs to all and cost little or nothing to consume more of the common resource. The principle has been demonstrated repeatedly in the small scale (google: ocean fisheries depletion, easter island, north american bison, email spamming, over grazing on public lands, etc)
As far as your connection of the tragedy of the commons to Communist agenda i have never heard such a connection (nor could I google any connection). In fact, I would say that since "the commons" is a central feature of Communism it would take mental gymnastics to justify communism via the ideas in the Tragedy of the Commons which argue against the economics of common ownership and if anything support private ownership.
Yes, the current boundaries of year-round farming are pushed farther to the north and south as temperatures moderate in the extreme latitudes. However the current bread basket of america will become dryer and be less productive so the lands considered today as bread baskets of the world are left with drought and severely reduced crop yields.
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Seems like putting all your eggs in a single basket is maybe not the best solution.
Since seeds are cheap why not distribute storage repositories around the globe?
Nonetheless I am thankful that the Norwegians are doing this for potentially all of humanity.
Come to think about it, I suppose the fact that our collective genome is stuck on this planet is akin to putting all your eggs in a single fragile basket.
I first read the title as:
"Ocean Planets on the Brink of Destruction"
Oh my... were screwing up those too huh?
There is line in the bible that says something like "There were midgets in the earth in those days" I am sure of it.
Let's hope he is saved by Penguins.
At one time I did some work for a company that uses a purely passive (no battery) RFID inside the cow. They embed a temperature a/d device within a microchip RFID to provide identification along with accurate body temperature measurement. The device is packaged in a bolus that sits in the cow rumen. When the cow walks by a reader board the id and temperature is transmitted. The cool thing is that the device is energized by the reader board so that no battery is required.
I know it may sound odd but just to get access to the list of software that is "approved" is a lesson in bureaucratic absurdity; forget actually submitting something to get "approved".
What is even more ridiculus is that users had to sign a form saying you would not install any software not on the list - yes, the list you cannot see without significant fortitude in dealing with out-of-control, out-of-touch bureaucracy!
The list is a joke, however. For example most software is approved only at some earlier release point. When Firefox was at v1.4 only v1.0.5 was approved. They probably have MySql 3.1 and Perl 5.6 approved by now.
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Yes, NMCI is Microsoft all the way or it is the highway. It is ironic that an organization that is suppose to protect a market driven economy, freedom and apple pie has taken a centralized (communist) one-size-fits-all anti-competitive monoculture approach to handling its IT.
Not only that the framers of the NMCI contract were apparently unable to distinguish between the needs of word processing secaterial pools, powerpoint obsessed managers, and cutting edge research and development engineers.
Fortunately, most research labs keep their "legacy networks" in place or we would be on par with the Islamic terrorist with respect to information technology - maybe we could both agree to have an Outlook/Project/PowerPoint war. Unfortunately now the research labs fund two different networks, everybody has two computers on their desks and we have two vulnerability fronts - NMCI and Legacy. I wish some fraud, waste and abuse watchdog organization would get a hold of this and publicize the travesty.
Does anyone know if human trials are planned for the US?
You conviently ignored explaining angular unconformities. I like angular uncomformities as a demonstration of old earth as you can walk right up to them and see them with your own eyes and there is little room for "interperation".
A flood very well explains marine deposits thousands of feet above sea level.
I can see that you are not up on the creationist literature. Creationist employ a mechanism called hydrological sorting to explain the sorting that is seen in the fossil record. For example why are no large modern mammal fossils found with dinosaur fossils. You are proposing the opposite of hyrdrological sorting where things are all mixed up and marine fossils are sitting on top of mountains. If that was the case then why not a single instance of a primate fossil in the same bed with a dinosaur? Also keep in mind many of these high elevation beds have signs of Bioturbation. These indications are present over many feet indicating that these organism where not buried and deposited but living in an slowly accumalating depositional zone.
You also ignored the fact that the Grand Canyon is layered with rock of different origins - limestone, sandstone, shale, igneous. How are these layed down by a single super flood. Some of these a layers are cross bedded sandstone, some are wind blown, some have raindrop marks, some have animal tracks and some have fossils.
More example of old earth? Magnetic reversals demonstrated on the spreading seafloor. Documenting long periods of time catching the reversal of the earths magnetic dipole as molten rock is layed down on the seafloor. Or how about ice core samples documenting seasonal transitions tens to several hundred thousands of years. Or large and thick geological deposits that consist primarily of tiny organism fossils such as diotomaceous chert, chalk and many limestones. Or layering of basalt with deposition in between. For example in which one of the these layers represents the global flood.
There sure is some willful denial going on here. I recommend you do some study and scratch in the earth yourself instead of just believing what supports your preconcieved notions and suppositions.
You are not worth debating this because you ignore the hard parts and spout off on tangents. For example you say For anyone to claim that such an event that from a physics standpoint probably cannot be measured or fathomed Are you saying that the flood existed outside of physics? Believe me if you look at the events that occur out in the cosmos such as supernova, solar flares, black holes, star collisions, planet collisions, a flood on a small planet is a tiny event by comparison.
It is you that shrinks God down to puny human size by having to believe in a creation story that a child can see as a fairy story a metaphor at best. Present day young earthers are akin to flat earthers or those who had to believe in geocentric earth. The concept of the earth rotating around the sun was at one time heresy. Good day.
Since Murphy works in space as well as earth, this time there will be a metric to english units conversion problem and they will miss the moon altogether.
Yes and when Clinton was "ministering" young interns in the oval office we didn't have planes running into buildings either.
So once you catch one of these typosquatters what do you do with them. Is it illegal ?
They will have to change the name from Xbox 360 to Xbox 180
I say buy the parcel of land at the bottom of the 100ft dropoff and set up an auto wrecking yard. Put up sign half way down - "Welcome to Crackpot Auto Wrecking"
i think a Dawkins quote applies here "'Show me a cultural relativist at thirty thousand feet and I'll show you a hypocrite. Airplanes are built according to scientific principals and they work. They stay aloft and they get you to a chosen destination. Airplanes built to tribal or mythological specifications such as the dummy planes of the Cargo cults in jungle clearings or the bees-waxed wings of Icaraus don't.'"
There parent post was talking about reality - you are talking about subjective truth relative systems that don't equate.
As databases such as MySQL, MS SQL and PostgreSQL and others keep adding features and performance the RDBMS are becoming more and more of a commodity market. To be expected.
sure it will http://www.sammcgees.com/storegen//lst/C202/images /C202_6_flyer.jpg>Blow your Mind
I would hazard a guess that you have not spent anytime on aljazeera.com.
It is not so much what they print as what they do not. Most anything negative to arab and muslim culture is routinely ignored or under reported.
For example, all through the cartoon protest aljazeera published scant little. They did not report ludicrious quotes from leaders like the Iranian Ayatollha who proclaimed the cartoons were a "jewish conspiracy". You did not see them mention that the most offensive cartoons were not drawn by the Danish cartoonist but were added by a Danish Imam to further inflame the faithful.
You will not find any mention of the travesty that is Sudan were torture and rape occur daily by arab islamic militia's. They ignore reporting sewerside bombings but will report in detail if an Israel soldiers roughs up a teenager. But you will find articles like "U.S. army accepts more "flawed" recruits".
No details on how this works but can turn loose a perl/lwp script and let it run all night and wake up a winner! Something tells me they have thought of this angle.
until some idiot gets the user name slimmold and posts here and everyone will give him a 5 funny.
no no, it is "I for one welcome the new Herbicide-resistant Superweed" If you going to use the predictable and now well worn troll, get it right!
Err make that a humble pie and supersize it ok.
O.K. so you are not using new lines and threw in a regular expression to make things look difficult. What is your point? I can gen up an equally obtuse statement in C and C++.
The article Tragedy of the Commons addresses the economics of common usage resources and over population was only one aspect of the article. The author, Garrett Hardin, makes no dated predictions but was defining an aspect of human behavior and economic reality when a "commons" is a resource used as though it belongs to all and cost little or nothing to consume more of the common resource. The principle has been demonstrated repeatedly in the small scale (google: ocean fisheries depletion, easter island, north american bison, email spamming, over grazing on public lands, etc)
As far as your connection of the tragedy of the commons to Communist agenda i have never heard such a connection (nor could I google any connection). In fact, I would say that since "the commons" is a central feature of Communism it would take mental gymnastics to justify communism via the ideas in the Tragedy of the Commons which argue against the economics of common ownership and if anything support private ownership.
Yes, the current boundaries of year-round farming are pushed farther to the north and south as temperatures moderate in the extreme latitudes. However the current bread basket of america will become dryer and be less productive so the lands considered today as bread baskets of the world are left with drought and severely reduced crop yields.