In a comparison of eight European and North American countries, Britain and the United States have the lowest social mobility ...
A careful comparison reveals that the USA and Britain are at the bottom with the lowest social mobility. Norway has the greatest social mobility, followed by Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Germany is around the middle of the two extremes, and Canada was found to be much more mobile than the UK.
Of course, you could try the darkside and mess it up to your heart's content, but that'll create huge logistics problems beyond just strip mining the moon.
What huge logistics problems will strip mining the 'side' of the Moon facing away from Earth (the 'darkside') as opposed to strip mining the 'side' facing towards Earth, create?
"More than 10,000 childrens titles were published in the UK last year, up 2,000 on 2002. (source: BML Ltd Books, Books And The Consumer survey.)"
If you spend 5 minutes on average on each book reading 12 hours each day it would take you 70 days just to read all children's book published in 2003 in the UK.
Whenever three or more contrarians are gathered together, one will inevitably claim that water vapour is being unjustly neglected by 'IPCC' scientists. "Why isn't water vapour acknowledged as a greenhouse gas?", "Why does anyone even care about the other greenhouse gases since water vapour is 98% of the effect?", "Why isn't water vapour included in climate models?", "Why isn't included on the forcings bar charts?" etc. Any mainstream scientist present will trot out the standard response that water vapour is indeed an important greenhouse gas, it is included in all climate models, but it is a feedback and not a forcing. From personal experience, I am aware that these distinctions are not clear to many, and so here is a more in-depth response...
...
While water vapour is indeed the most important greenhouse gas, the issue that makes it a feedback (rather than a forcing) is the relatively short residence time for water in the atmosphere (around 10 days).
http://mustelid.blogspot.com/2005/01/water-vapour- is-not-dominant.html ...
Water vapour is a "reactive" GHG with a short atmospheric lifetime of about 1 week. If you pump out a whole load of extra water vapour it won't stay in the atmosphere; it would condense as rain/snow and we'd be back to where we started. If you sucked the atmosphere dry of moisture, more would evaporate from the oceans. The balance is dynamic of course: humidity of the air varies by place and time, but its a stable balance.
In contrast, CO2 has a long lifetime (actually calculating a single "lifetime" for it doesn't work; but a given CO2 pulse such as we're supplying now will hang around for.. ohh... a century or more). It doesn't rain out (amusing factoid: the surface temperature of the deep interior Antarctica in winter can be colder than the freezing point of CO2; but this doesn't lead to CO2 snow (sadly, it would be fun) because the freezing point is lower because of the lower pressure because its higher up). So if you put in extra CO2 the climate warms a bit; because of this move WV evaporates (it doesn't have to, but just about all models show that the relative humidity tends to be about constant; so if you heat the atmos that means that the absolute humidity will increase). This in turn warms the atmosphere warms up a bit more; so more water gets evaporates. This is a positive feedback but a limited one: the increments (if you think of it that way) get smaller not larger so there is no runaway GH effect.
So: adding CO2 to the atmosphere warms it a bit and ends up with more WV. Adding WV does nothing much and the atmos returns to equilibrium. This is why WV is not the *dominant* GHG; its more like a submissive GHG:-)
...
ELEANOR HALL: Is it the case that the Indonesian legal system is based on the presumption of guilt?
TIM LINDSAY: No, that is completely false. As a matter of fact it is completely the opposite. The system in Indonesia is the same as the system in Australia, and our Commonwealth system. Article 66 of the Criminal Procedure Code specifically states that the burden of proof to prove guilt in a criminal case lies with the prosecution.
In other words, that unless the prosecution can prove guilt, the person is innocent. So the common furphy that is being circulated in Australia in the media at the moment that people in the Indonesian system are presumed guilty until proven innocent is totally false.
...
From the article: Smalltalk was the world's first object-oriented programming language, where program code and data could be encapsulated into single units called objects that could then be reused by other programs without having to know the details of the object's implementation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_progr amming History ...
The first object-oriented programming language was Simula 67, a language designed for making simulations, created by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard of the Norwegian Computing Centre in Oslo. (Reportedly, the story is that they were working on ship simulations, and were confounded by the combinatorial explosion of how the different attributes from different ships could affect one another. The idea occurred to group the different types of ships into different classes of objects, each class of objects being responsible for defining its own data and behavior.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula
Simula introduced the object-oriented programming paradigm and thus can be considered the first object-oriented programming language and a predecessor to Smalltalk, C++, Java, and all modern class-based object-oriented languages.
Australia is a country now?
I thought Australia was a penal colony of the British Empire. This is very disturbing news indeed.
I fear what will happen if this news spreads to other parts of the Empire. What if the barbarians of the American colonies want to govern themselves?
The mere thought almost makes me feel nauseous enough to skip high tea.
Dear Slashdot "Editors" - I certainly hope each of you has asked Santa for an unabridged grammar reference and a spelling checker for Christmas this
year!
Slashdot Mirror
Maps of the distribution of dark matter have been produced using weak gravitational lensing, e.g. in the COSMOS survey.
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic0701/
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~rjm/cosmos/
http://www.space.com/14176-dark-matter-biggest-map-unveiled.html
Less social and economic mobility; ...
i onOffice/newsAndEvents/archives/2005/LSE_SuttonTru st_report.htm
...
M obility.pdf
Au contraire...
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/pressAndInformat
In a comparison of eight European and North American countries, Britain and the United States have the lowest social mobility
A careful comparison reveals that the USA and Britain are at the bottom with the lowest social mobility. Norway has the greatest social mobility, followed by Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Germany is around the middle of the two extremes, and Canada was found to be much more mobile than the UK.
http://cep.lse.ac.uk/about/news/Intergenerational
Of course, you could try the darkside and mess it up to your heart's content, but that'll create huge logistics problems beyond just strip mining the moon.
What huge logistics problems will strip mining the 'side' of the Moon facing away from Earth (the 'darkside') as opposed to strip mining the 'side' facing towards Earth, create?
"I could probably read every childrens book ever published since the invention of the printing press in a few months if I wasn't working..."
l
http://www.booktrusted.co.uk/nestle/factsheet.htm
"More than 10,000 childrens titles were published in the UK last year, up 2,000 on 2002. (source: BML Ltd Books, Books And The Consumer survey.)"
If you spend 5 minutes on average on each book reading 12 hours each day it would take you 70 days just to read all children's book published in 2003 in the UK.
...(not to mention that burning (e.g. oxydizing) hydrogen creates water vapor, which is a far more efficient greenhouse gas than CO2)...
...
- is-not-dominant.html
...
:-)
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=142
Water vapour: feedback or forcing?
Whenever three or more contrarians are gathered together, one will inevitably claim that water vapour is being unjustly neglected by 'IPCC' scientists. "Why isn't water vapour acknowledged as a greenhouse gas?", "Why does anyone even care about the other greenhouse gases since water vapour is 98% of the effect?", "Why isn't water vapour included in climate models?", "Why isn't included on the forcings bar charts?" etc. Any mainstream scientist present will trot out the standard response that water vapour is indeed an important greenhouse gas, it is included in all climate models, but it is a feedback and not a forcing. From personal experience, I am aware that these distinctions are not clear to many, and so here is a more in-depth response...
While water vapour is indeed the most important greenhouse gas, the issue that makes it a feedback (rather than a forcing) is the relatively short residence time for water in the atmosphere (around 10 days).
http://mustelid.blogspot.com/2005/01/water-vapour
Water vapour is a "reactive" GHG with a short atmospheric lifetime of about 1 week. If you pump out a whole load of extra water vapour it won't stay in the atmosphere; it would condense as rain/snow and we'd be back to where we started. If you sucked the atmosphere dry of moisture, more would evaporate from the oceans. The balance is dynamic of course: humidity of the air varies by place and time, but its a stable balance.
In contrast, CO2 has a long lifetime (actually calculating a single "lifetime" for it doesn't work; but a given CO2 pulse such as we're supplying now will hang around for.. ohh... a century or more). It doesn't rain out (amusing factoid: the surface temperature of the deep interior Antarctica in winter can be colder than the freezing point of CO2; but this doesn't lead to CO2 snow (sadly, it would be fun) because the freezing point is lower because of the lower pressure because its higher up). So if you put in extra CO2 the climate warms a bit; because of this move WV evaporates (it doesn't have to, but just about all models show that the relative humidity tends to be about constant; so if you heat the atmos that means that the absolute humidity will increase). This in turn warms the atmosphere warms up a bit more; so more water gets evaporates. This is a positive feedback but a limited one: the increments (if you think of it that way) get smaller not larger so there is no runaway GH effect.
So: adding CO2 to the atmosphere warms it a bit and ends up with more WV. Adding WV does nothing much and the atmos returns to equilibrium. This is why WV is not the *dominant* GHG; its more like a submissive GHG
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s13
ELEANOR HALL: Is it the case that the Indonesian legal system is based on the presumption of guilt?
TIM LINDSAY: No, that is completely false. As a matter of fact it is completely the opposite. The system in Indonesia is the same as the system in Australia, and our Commonwealth system. Article 66 of the Criminal Procedure Code specifically states that the burden of proof to prove guilt in a criminal case lies with the prosecution.
In other words, that unless the prosecution can prove guilt, the person is innocent. So the common furphy that is being circulated in Australia in the media at the moment that people in the Indonesian system are presumed guilty until proven innocent is totally false.
...
From the article:
r amming
...
Smalltalk was the world's first object-oriented programming language, where program code and data could be encapsulated into single units called objects that could then be reused by other programs without having to know the details of the object's implementation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_prog
History
The first object-oriented programming language was Simula 67, a language designed for making simulations, created by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard of the Norwegian Computing Centre in Oslo. (Reportedly, the story is that they were working on ship simulations, and were confounded by the combinatorial explosion of how the different attributes from different ships could affect one another. The idea occurred to group the different types of ships into different classes of objects, each class of objects being responsible for defining its own data and behavior.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula
Simula introduced the object-oriented programming paradigm and thus can be considered the first object-oriented programming language and a predecessor to Smalltalk, C++, Java, and all modern class-based object-oriented languages.
Give people a fucking break and start your own magazine that will be profitable and stand up to your anal standards.
Surely you meant to type:
Give people a fucking brake and start your own magazine that will be profitable and stand up to your anal standards.
"...assets frozen in the country of Australia"
Australia is a country now?
I thought Australia was a penal colony of the British Empire. This is very disturbing news indeed.
I fear what will happen if this news spreads to other parts of the Empire. What if the barbarians of the American colonies want to govern themselves?
The mere thought almost makes me feel nauseous enough to skip high tea.
Dear Slashdot "Editors" - I certainly hope each of you has asked Santa for an unabridged grammar reference and a spelling checker for Christmas this year!
According to these sites:m
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats4.htm
http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/eu.ht
The population of Europe + FSU (or Europe, for short)
is ~730 million.
The population of EU + FSU is ~600 million.
I'm afaid you're wrong.
... to more than 90 per cent in the wars of the 1990s."
p 91lopez
http://www.unicef.org/graca/patterns.htm
"Patterns in conflict:
Civilians are now the target"
"Civilian fatalities in wartime have climbed from 5 per cent at the turn of the century
http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=se
"Not so clean"
'The U.S. strategy of Air-Land Battle closely resembles "total war."'