You might want to look here for more details on the procedure, but yes, it involves cookies. I would guess that if you clear cookies from your browser before buying online, you are pretty much protected against having your name (through your facebook ID) associated with your purchase information, if I understood TFA correctly.
There is no joke on Thailand, except in the mind of the person who actually posted my story. The original word was Scandinavia, basically because it is now always (or almost) dark there and Envisat cannot take pictures, that was all.
Now, if somebody can explain to me why my original story was modified, I would like to hear about it.
Just to make a precision on what is mentionned in the news: this week, the last superconducting magnet was produced by the assembly site and delivered at CERN. That doesn't mean they are all installed and 'in place'. This will come most probably next year in March. I work at CERN on the Atlas experiment and a few months ago, the number was 60% installed. Although the installation crew is doing a great job, I don't think they would bring this 40% down in less than 2 months.
Because nothing in life is free. Money spent on bringing pollution farther down than we really have to is money we won't be able to spend on vaccines, disaster relief, mosquito eradication etc., etc.
This is just wrong... I am not talking about stopping the economy, I am talking about *development*, i.e. new investments, that will go towards a truly sustainable development.
If a given substance is harmless in concentrations of say, one part per million, it's foolish and wasteful to try to get it down to one part per billion or trillion.
No matter is CO2 is a direct cause of global warming, it is a polluting substance!! It is not natural and we should try to avoid to use invasive technology, i.e. technologies which leave traces in the environment.
As I said, people should stop seeing good measures for the environment as being a blockage to development.
Putting the global warming issue aside, I still don't understand why people would fight to go on polluting the planet? I mean, if CO2 emissions are not directly causing global warming (which I think is wrong, but that is another story), what is the interest, except money, to continue the emissions? We are about to develop and use non-invasive technologies which will develop other economical areas, why don't we? There is really no point in fighting to continue our bad habits, no matter how armful they can be (or they can thought to be...).
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You might want to look here for more details on the procedure, but yes, it involves cookies. I would guess that if you clear cookies from your browser before buying online, you are pretty much protected against having your name (through your facebook ID) associated with your purchase information, if I understood TFA correctly.
There is no joke on Thailand, except in the mind of the person who actually posted my story. The original word was Scandinavia, basically because it is now always (or almost) dark there and Envisat cannot take pictures, that was all. Now, if somebody can explain to me why my original story was modified, I would like to hear about it.
Just to make a precision on what is mentionned in the news: this week, the last superconducting magnet was produced by the assembly site and delivered at CERN. That doesn't mean they are all installed and 'in place'. This will come most probably next year in March. I work at CERN on the Atlas experiment and a few months ago, the number was 60% installed. Although the installation crew is doing a great job, I don't think they would bring this 40% down in less than 2 months.
Because nothing in life is free. Money spent on bringing pollution farther down than we really have to is money we won't be able to spend on vaccines, disaster relief, mosquito eradication etc., etc.
This is just wrong... I am not talking about stopping the economy, I am talking about *development*, i.e. new investments, that will go towards a truly sustainable development.
If a given substance is harmless in concentrations of say, one part per million, it's foolish and wasteful to try to get it down to one part per billion or trillion.
No matter is CO2 is a direct cause of global warming, it is a polluting substance!! It is not natural and we should try to avoid to use invasive technology, i.e. technologies which leave traces in the environment. As I said, people should stop seeing good measures for the environment as being a blockage to development.
Putting the global warming issue aside, I still don't understand why people would fight to go on polluting the planet? I mean, if CO2 emissions are not directly causing global warming (which I think is wrong, but that is another story), what is the interest, except money, to continue the emissions? We are about to develop and use non-invasive technologies which will develop other economical areas, why don't we? There is really no point in fighting to continue our bad habits, no matter how armful they can be (or they can thought to be...).