Mars can be "terra formed". It probably only takes 100 - 200 years to do so. It is in our solar system. It likely once had life.
or under the ocean, or under a desert, buried in Antarctica In your eyes... not in mine. Why should I live "under ground" on earth when I have a desert sky on Mars? I would love to see a sunrise or sunset on Mars... underground in Antarctica: no chance.
Yes, and oil and gas has no energy cost in "production" and "transportation"?
You should once look at a pipeline more closely to understand how the oil is actually "pumped", or more interesting how that is donw with gas. Hint: the amount of gas getting out of the pipeline is significantly less than the amount you put in at the other end...
However it is a difference in "creating" HTML that is rendered in a way you want, versus reading HTML.
I'm a software architect and software engineer... I don't write HTML;D... my programs do.
In our times HTML is a quite complex thing, considering you mainly use CSS now to get all the things done you used to do in plain HTML 15 years or 20 years ago.
My point was that the GP is grossly overrating how useful it is to learn an assembly language.
For "ordinary" programming it is completely pointless.
It would e.g. make more sense to learn JavaScript to remote control the Eclipse (Code Composer Studio) to use the debugger to download code via an Lauerbach "Emulator" on a target device and run it and then pick up specific memory locations to run "tests".
Or to learn LISP to automate tasks in Emacs etc. p.p.
As an intellectual exercise learning assembly might be "fun". But assembly is a quite simple concept.
To be a compiler writer, simply learning assembly is not enough. Hence again: it is quite pointless to "just learn assembly for fun". to be a compiler writer you need to be an _EXPERT_
Of course it is not pointless to "do something for fun", but claiming it has any particular value above "fun" is simply wrong, unless you dig deep enough into it to become an expert.
The amount of stuff we get from China is neglectible,
And most certainly not "cleaning stuff for the kitchen"... or a part for my car.
90% of the stuff I have is made in Europe, and the remaining 10% are not from China but all over the world.
The iPhone in question is _assembled_ in China. You can google who is making the parts. Hint: China is not famous for semi conductor factories.
Willful ignorance != myth. Yeah, so: you failed to give me an example about what the USA are importing from China. We import food.
Cloth we import from elsewhere, partly in Asia, partly not... easy to google. Definitely not China. Because: again, China is not famous for its clothing exports.
The sun is not cooling since the 1980ths, but since roughly 1998.
No idea why you want to spread your idiotic world view with links like that....
You should read the articles, and try to comprehend them. Hint: the word "myth" in the title of your first linked article should be a give away. (*facepalm*)
So, how much money is actually spent in the US for climate research?
Sorry, but phrases like this: Oh, but they want more money and power to "save us" from global warming. are just bollocks.
If I was a climate scientist, I would work on something else than global warming if it was not a hot topic. There actually are plenty of climate scientists that don't work on global warming. To say that someone goes into university to make a "fake PhD" to get "grants" to do "fake science" is not only an insult to those people spending 15 years of their life to get into a research position: it is idiotic!
People go to an university because they want to learn. Most people after wards _work_ in a normal "industry" job or are lawyers/teachers/programmers etc. Only a minority "stays in the system" and become researchers and/or professors.
If all climate science would be canceled tomorrow, you would not even see a single tax dollar saved. It just would go into something else. So fuck off with your stupid attitude that "scientists want grants", moron.
Where would you be if there was not once a scientist who got funding for: internet, smartphone, microwave, antibiotics "insert your toy"
On the off-chance you're not trolling, **anthropogenic** climate change exists only because of overpopulation. No it does not. 25 -35% % of the planets population is creating 90% of the CO2.
The rest is not using as much energy, has better ways to create energy.
If the world population were, say, 250 million, we could all heat our houses with soft coal, drive 5 mpg cars, eat Kobe beefsteak every nigh NO WE COULD NOT. It only would take longer to get the atmosphere into a "critical" state. It would not change the fundamental problem in any way!
I actually own nothing made in China... I really wonder how much China is exporting to the USA and what kinds of goods americans buy from China. From my point of view it looks like a internet myth. However, my iPhone 4 is _assembled_ in China.
You must have a very strange idea what a "tonne" is.
$300 tax on CO2 per tonne, that is nothing.
Suppose you have car that uses 10l diesel on 100km, that would be 2.6kg CO2. You can make nearly 400 (384) 100km far travels with a car to produce one tonne of CO2. That would mean each travel would roughly be $1 more expensive. Or in other words: to pay $300 in CO2 tax for your car you need to travel something like close to 40,000km (and need a car with a relatively high diesel consumption)
Which begs the question: what the heck DO you trust? I guess he trusts his bank account the numbers he sees on his computer screen via the internet. Ah, well might be he lives in the USA where plenty of people don't do online banking.
On the other hand: you are not allowed to say "beg the question" on/. the crowd will punish you with replies that this is an incorrect usage of the phrase as it is a rhetorical "technique"... just kidding...;D
Hitler was backed by over 90% of the people. He wasn't. He was a dictator with an apparatus to suppress its citizens. Just like Stalin, Mussolini and plenty of other "rulers" on all sides during that time period.
That is wrong. As long as you are not standing precisely on the pole the sun will always rise in the east. If you are standing precisely on the pole you could argue that the rising point is south, however: http://www.etymonline.com/inde...
I don't get your argument. Regardless of which side of the equator you are: the sun always rises in the east. East is defined by the place/side where the sun is rising.
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It is most likely not "bubbeling up" to an EU court.
Why would it?
The EU has no business in regulating "people transportation licenses" and or "taxi service permits" etc.
Mars can be "terra formed".
It probably only takes 100 - 200 years to do so.
It is in our solar system.
It likely once had life.
or under the ocean, or under a desert, buried in Antarctica ... not in mine. Why should I live "under ground" on earth when I have a desert sky on Mars? I would love to see a sunrise or sunset on Mars ... underground in Antarctica: no chance.
In your eyes
There are a few flaws, e.g. there is no carbon sink that is relevant on that scale.
And to have those benefits you mention, you have to kill all of the western civilization and leave upstarts like India and China alone ...
The Ambassador of Progress.
Where do you live?
The flight routes I fly cost less then half and down to a tenth of the price they used to cost 30 years ago.
300â from Frankfurt to New York, KFC .... would have costed 1000â 1980 ...
A flight to BBK from FRA is â370, it used to be â1500. Think about Tokyo or any destination in Australia.
Short range flights like Berlin to London or Paris, or from Frankfurt are ABSURD cheap.
As I said you are idiot. Even to dumb to check my posting history.
Your efficiency numbers make no sense. Same your ideas about "cost" ;D
I suggest to google a bit.
The point of the ferry is: don't have smoke/fumes/dust/soot in the harbor.
RTFA?
The batteries weight 11tons.
What is wrong in your eyes with simply recharging them over night and "topping" them a bit at every stop?
Yes, and oil and gas has no energy cost in "production" and "transportation"?
You should once look at a pipeline more closely to understand how the oil is actually "pumped", or more interesting how that is donw with gas. Hint: the amount of gas getting out of the pipeline is significantly less than the amount you put in at the other end ...
It is actually very easy to google how efficient lithium ion batteries are in charging and recharging.
E.g.: https://www.powertechsystems.e...
There is no reason to make up your absurd numbers and use them for a pointless argument.
For those who are to lazy to read: lithium ion batteries charge and recharge with nearly 100% efficiency.
No, why do you think it confuses me?
However it is a difference in "creating" HTML that is rendered in a way you want, versus reading HTML.
I'm a software architect and software engineer ... I don't write HTML ;D ... my programs do.
In our times HTML is a quite complex thing, considering you mainly use CSS now to get all the things done you used to do in plain HTML 15 years or 20 years ago.
Then learn how to use debugger.
You put a breakpoint at the line in your stack trace where your code is about to call the STL.
Pretty simple.
Bonus points if you are able to read the manual of your debugger/IDE and set a "conditional breakpoint".
We don't need to argue about obvious stuff.
My point was that the GP is grossly overrating how useful it is to learn an assembly language.
For "ordinary" programming it is completely pointless.
It would e.g. make more sense to learn JavaScript to remote control the Eclipse (Code Composer Studio) to use the debugger to download code via an Lauerbach "Emulator" on a target device and run it and then pick up specific memory locations to run "tests".
Or to learn LISP to automate tasks in Emacs etc. p.p.
As an intellectual exercise learning assembly might be "fun". But assembly is a quite simple concept.
To be a compiler writer, simply learning assembly is not enough. Hence again: it is quite pointless to "just learn assembly for fun". to be a compiler writer you need to be an _EXPERT_
Of course it is not pointless to "do something for fun", but claiming it has any particular value above "fun" is simply wrong, unless you dig deep enough into it to become an expert.
I live in Germany.
The amount of stuff we get from China is neglectible,
And most certainly not "cleaning stuff for the kitchen" ... or a part for my car.
90% of the stuff I have is made in Europe, and the remaining 10% are not from China but all over the world.
The iPhone in question is _assembled_ in China. You can google who is making the parts. Hint: China is not famous for semi conductor factories.
Willful ignorance != myth.
Yeah, so: you failed to give me an example about what the USA are importing from China.
We import food.
Cloth we import from elsewhere, partly in Asia, partly not ... easy to google. Definitely not China. Because: again, China is not famous for its clothing exports.
Regarding to this page: http://www.worldstopexports.co... China is exporting about 3.5% of its "trade" in cloth.
The sun is not cooling since the 1980ths, but since roughly 1998.
No idea why you want to spread your idiotic world view with links like that ....
You should read the articles, and try to comprehend them. Hint: the word "myth" in the title of your first linked article should be a give away. (*facepalm*)
So, how much money is actually spent in the US for climate research?
Sorry, but phrases like this: Oh, but they want more money and power to "save us" from global warming. are just bollocks.
If I was a climate scientist, I would work on something else than global warming if it was not a hot topic. There actually are plenty of climate scientists that don't work on global warming. To say that someone goes into university to make a "fake PhD" to get "grants" to do "fake science" is not only an insult to those people spending 15 years of their life to get into a research position: it is idiotic!
People go to an university because they want to learn. Most people after wards _work_ in a normal "industry" job or are lawyers/teachers/programmers etc. Only a minority "stays in the system" and become researchers and/or professors.
If all climate science would be canceled tomorrow, you would not even see a single tax dollar saved. It just would go into something else. So fuck off with your stupid attitude that "scientists want grants", moron.
Where would you be if there was not once a scientist who got funding for: internet, smartphone, microwave, antibiotics "insert your toy"
You are just an idiot ...
On the off-chance you're not trolling, **anthropogenic** climate change exists only because of overpopulation.
No it does not.
25 -35% % of the planets population is creating 90% of the CO2.
The rest is not using as much energy, has better ways to create energy.
If the world population were, say, 250 million, we could all heat our houses with soft coal, drive 5 mpg cars, eat Kobe beefsteak every nigh
NO WE COULD NOT. It only would take longer to get the atmosphere into a "critical" state. It would not change the fundamental problem in any way!
I actually own nothing made in China ... I really wonder how much China is exporting to the USA and what kinds of goods americans buy from China. From my point of view it looks like a internet myth.
However, my iPhone 4 is _assembled_ in China.
You must have a very strange idea what a "tonne" is.
$300 tax on CO2 per tonne, that is nothing.
Suppose you have car that uses 10l diesel on 100km, that would be 2.6kg CO2. You can make nearly 400 (384) 100km far travels with a car to produce one tonne of CO2. That would mean each travel would roughly be $1 more expensive. Or in other words: to pay $300 in CO2 tax for your car you need to travel something like close to 40,000km (and need a car with a relatively high diesel consumption)
Which begs the question: what the heck DO you trust?
I guess he trusts his bank account the numbers he sees on his computer screen via the internet.
Ah, well might be he lives in the USA where plenty of people don't do online banking.
On the other hand: you are not allowed to say "beg the question" on /. the crowd will punish you with replies that this is an incorrect usage of the phrase as it is a rhetorical "technique" ... just kidding ... ;D
Hitler was backed by over 90% of the people.
He wasn't. He was a dictator with an apparatus to suppress its citizens. Just like Stalin, Mussolini and plenty of other "rulers" on all sides during that time period.
For example, just look at all of the colleges that still teach UML, despite industry having tried it and rejected it almost two decades ago now.
I would suggest to google how many affordable UML tools are out there now and then check the stock prices of the vendors and/or their sales.
Basically every company I worked for during the last 20 years uses UML or one of its predecessors.
What else would you use to document or forward engineer or use as base for MDA/MDSD?
In many places in the world the sun rises and sets in the North or the South.
I don't know why you want to nitpick about bollocks like this.
Those places are not "many". There are exactly two places. And if you want you can make them a bit bigger by drawing a 1km circle around them.
Outside of those circles the sun rises in the east. Because: that is the definition of east.
That is wrong. As long as you are not standing precisely on the pole the sun will always rise in the east.
If you are standing precisely on the pole you could argue that the rising point is south, however: http://www.etymonline.com/inde...
I don't get your argument.
Regardless of which side of the equator you are: the sun always rises in the east.
East is defined by the place/side where the sun is rising.
http://www.etymonline.com/inde...