If I had to chose between VB and COBOL, my choice most certainly would not be VB. COBOL might be verbose, nut it is a fine programming language/paradigm.
I guess you never used it and have not much clue what magic you can do with PIC().
I get job offers via my Stackoverflow profile. So I'm quite certain HR does know what stackoverflow.com is. However it is quite astonishing that the job offers usually have nothing to do with my expertise on SO, last job offer was regarding GWT, I was hailed as an expert. I doubt I answered more than 3 GWT related questions.
JavaScript is just an umbrella term for people using TypeScript and/or CoffeeScript or other stuff that gets compiled down do JavaScript. As a 'concept' JavaScript is nit that bad, but the type conversation rules and the possibility to use undeclared variables is a nightmare.
Nuclear power is the safest energy source we currently know of It is not.
Or do you again want to include working accidents like falling from a roof in case of solar or mining accidents in case of coal (which seem to happen mostly in the US, surprisingly for me) into "energy safety"??
The main reason Germany (and soon France) is dropping out of nuclear energy is safety concerns, especially regarding the spent fuel and waste, regardless of reprocessed or not.
and data shows that nuclear power is safe, comparatively inexpensive, To what do you compare it then? In my country it is the most expensive power we have.Not on the energy bill, but on the tax bill.
People are more concerned about things like having a job, not getting killed by Muslims, and if they can catch the next Pokemon. I for my part have no concerns on my top ten list like not getting killed by Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Atheists... in no particular order of those religions and non religions.
Where do you live that you have concerns to be killed by Muslims? Sudan? Saudi Arabia?
If you want a site where you can post anti global warming theories etc. then make your own site.
On this site we obey the laws of physics, as good as we can. And people who can not accept the truth shall not have a platform here in spreading their weird ideologies.
Capital expenses for nuclear power are so close to that of coal power that they are effectively identical. Perhaps you should look into the numbers before writing nonsense like this.
However the discussion is mood anyway, as long as the waste problem is not solved no nation is going to invest majourly in to nuclear anymore. Considering that wind and solar are cheaper anyway and quicker and more flexible set up...
Several times in the past, decades ago, we've seen nuclear reactors go from nothing to fully operational in less than three years. A blank sheet of paper in 1951 to the USS Nautilus in 1954
Do you really need someone to explain to you the difference between a tiny submarine reactor versus a power plant?
With the right materials available I build you a reactor in half a year, by hand, as a single person. The principles are super simple. Getting it "working" as in "safe" is a bit harder, getting it to a few hundred mega watts for production of electricity makes it "complex" at least and if you would care to check how big those beasts are you would understand why construction time is over a decade. Construction time, not time to approve it, get the protesters silenced and finally construct it.
(slow) cooling trend from about 7000BCE onward. Where do you have this myth from? Hu? The last "ice age" barely ended around 12,000 to 10,000 years ago. And you want to tell us just ~3,000 later it already started to cool again? Rofl...
The medieval warm period did not affect sea ice at all. Probably.
It also did not affect the global temperature at all. On your weird definition of global?
It was a localized effect in such a small area that the global average didn't even move. No it wasn't. We just have no data about the _global_ temperature at that time, but we have reports from many places of the world, notable China and Japan that it was warmer than normal there, too. So: very likely it was at least on the northern hemisphere a global phenomenon.
So: the lack of written evidence, because we have none from Inka, Australians, Africans, does not mean it did not happen there.
And: if you talk about a/the medieval warm period, it would be cool to add which one you mean. There where three AFAICT.
The USA does know. Most of those areas where ISIS rules are still part of an official country that requires a VISA to enter. Hence you have a stamp of that country in your passport and to get a VISA for the USA you have to show your passport...
In my country people that call themselves "liberals" are pro citizen and pro protection of citizens from corporations or laws like this. But a law like this would be impossible here anyway as it would contradict dozens of privacy laws.
Yes, I saw the part about "forests extending to the south pole"
But it is IMHO wrong. It is unlikely that a tree can grow at a place where it has a 3 month total night. Antarctica was covered in forests before it reached its position at the south pole. When it was there most likely only the edges were under forests.
On the other hand it is thinkable that trees at those times had a different metabolism than our times trees. Trees in our times basically shut down because of the cold. Perhaps they also can shut down because of lack of light? Or don't really need to shut down as long as it is warm enough?
Anyway, if we talk about "the south pole" as 0" position on earth: it is extremely unlikely that there ever was a forest.
libertarian ideological nutcasery? Why yo mention 'libertarians" in this case is beyond me. Does that word actually mean in your country what is written in the dictionary?
Since antarctica is at the "south pole" it has no forests.
You are misinformed.
During the "Cretaceous period" Antarctica was not at the south pole. In fact I think it still was a part of Godwana land... but I might be mistaken here:D
Not sure. I think climate scientists tried very long to be "not alarmists" so they used to underestimate or "under publish" their predictions. It was clear in the 1970s that the published prognosises were at the lower limit of what we really could expect. But between 1970 and 1990 not much was published as the industry tried to silence scientists. Around 1995 and 1998 with super hot summers no one could deny anymore that the scientists had a point. But right at that time suddenly the american "skeptics movement" started, how retarded.
You mean the tips of the Himalaya? That is not in the north but east. China has no real perma frost regions. You seem not to understand what the word means. It means: soil that is frozen in winter, and from a certain depth, like 1 meter, or two, is not thawing in summer.
Against popular believe the living standard is extremely high and cost of living extremely low. Well, you can not compare the standard of living with Norway or Denmark, but instead of cold winters you have just a rain season and a "hot season" and "cool season"... cool means it is like may or june in germany.
On the other hand the standard of living, health care, food, infrastructure, internet, mobile phones beats most parts of Europe easily... and the US... well, never was there, but I guess there is a reason why my health insurance does not cover the US.
Where do you live? I would like to experience a real winter again.
For me it is like 35 or 40 years in a row that we had no real winter. But well, I live in central Germany, not in the Alps or close to the pole.
When I was 8 - 15 we had like -30 degrees around Christmas, usually a bit later in mid January, but when I got my Apendix removed it started already around Christmas. 31th of december 1976 I believe, -33 degrees at midnight. Could have been 1977... not sure. A clear sky, Orion standing hight, the air as dry as in a desert, cold, the breath blown to a window froze immediately. A superb night... I miss it.
Now we have +25 degrees (CELSIUS!) around Christmas... it is just a chance that in late January or early february the scale goes below zero during daytime.
Snow? Sometimes the last years I woke up early and saw a glimpse of snow on the sidewalk...
They're usually just asking for evidence and unmodified data The data can usually be downloaded at the agency that gathered it, for free. We have since over 30 years a world wide contract/agreement between research institutes/governments that every meteorologic data and climate research date is published and free to download... world wide.
If anyone was a "skeptics" instead of a fraudster, he would sit in his basement, silent, and analyze or play how ever he wants with that data.
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If I had to chose between VB and COBOL, my choice most certainly would not be VB.
COBOL might be verbose, nut it is a fine programming language/paradigm.
I guess you never used it and have not much clue what magic you can do with PIC().
I get job offers via my Stackoverflow profile. So I'm quite certain HR does know what stackoverflow.com is.
However it is quite astonishing that the job offers usually have nothing to do with my expertise on SO, last job offer was regarding GWT, I was hailed as an expert. I doubt I answered more than 3 GWT related questions.
You are probably both, engineer as academic title and job title, developer as job title. What is your problem?
JavaScript is just an umbrella term for people using TypeScript and/or CoffeeScript or other stuff that gets compiled down do JavaScript.
As a 'concept' JavaScript is nit that bad, but the type conversation rules and the possibility to use undeclared variables is a nightmare.
Nuclear power is the safest energy source we currently know of
It is not.
Or do you again want to include working accidents like falling from a roof in case of solar or mining accidents in case of coal (which seem to happen mostly in the US, surprisingly for me) into "energy safety"??
The main reason Germany (and soon France) is dropping out of nuclear energy is safety concerns, especially regarding the spent fuel and waste, regardless of reprocessed or not.
and data shows that nuclear power is safe, comparatively inexpensive,
To what do you compare it then? In my country it is the most expensive power we have.Not on the energy bill, but on the tax bill.
People are more concerned about things like having a job, not getting killed by Muslims, and if they can catch the next Pokemon. ... in no particular order of those religions and non religions.
I for my part have no concerns on my top ten list like not getting killed by Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Atheists
Where do you live that you have concerns to be killed by Muslims? Sudan? Saudi Arabia?
If you want a site where you can post anti global warming theories etc. then make your own site.
On this site we obey the laws of physics, as good as we can. And people who can not accept the truth shall not have a platform here in spreading their weird ideologies.
Capital expenses for nuclear power are so close to that of coal power that they are effectively identical.
Perhaps you should look into the numbers before writing nonsense like this.
However the discussion is mood anyway, as long as the waste problem is not solved no nation is going to invest majourly in to nuclear anymore. Considering that wind and solar are cheaper anyway and quicker and more flexible set up ...
Several times in the past, decades ago, we've seen nuclear reactors go from nothing to fully operational in less than three years. A blank sheet of paper in 1951 to the USS Nautilus in 1954
Do you really need someone to explain to you the difference between a tiny submarine reactor versus a power plant?
With the right materials available I build you a reactor in half a year, by hand, as a single person. The principles are super simple. Getting it "working" as in "safe" is a bit harder, getting it to a few hundred mega watts for production of electricity makes it "complex" at least and if you would care to check how big those beasts are you would understand why construction time is over a decade. Construction time, not time to approve it, get the protesters silenced and finally construct it.
(slow) cooling trend from about 7000BCE onward. ...
Where do you have this myth from? Hu? The last "ice age" barely ended around 12,000 to 10,000 years ago. And you want to tell us just ~3,000 later it already started to cool again? Rofl
You are mixing up feet with meters.
The latest estimates were if the whole ice cap on greenland melts or slides in to the ocean a 15m - 17m, 45feet to 51feet sea level increase.
The medieval warm period did not affect sea ice at all.
Probably.
It also did not affect the global temperature at all.
On your weird definition of global?
It was a localized effect in such a small area that the global average didn't even move.
No it wasn't. We just have no data about the _global_ temperature at that time, but we have reports from many places of the world, notable China and Japan that it was warmer than normal there, too. So: very likely it was at least on the northern hemisphere a global phenomenon.
So: the lack of written evidence, because we have none from Inka, Australians, Africans, does not mean it did not happen there.
And: if you talk about a/the medieval warm period, it would be cool to add which one you mean. There where three AFAICT.
The USA does know. ...
Most of those areas where ISIS rules are still part of an official country that requires a VISA to enter. Hence you have a stamp of that country in your passport and to get a VISA for the USA you have to show your passport
Tibet is in the Himalaya.
Of course they have perma frost areas. This type is called "altitude perma frost".
North of China is Russia ... and it takes thousands of miles till you reach arctic or so called "latitude perma frost" in the north.
However I'm unsure about the north/east tip of China, it is quite northward.
In my country people that call themselves "liberals" are pro citizen and pro protection of citizens from corporations or laws like this.
But a law like this would be impossible here anyway as it would contradict dozens of privacy laws.
Yes, I saw the part about "forests extending to the south pole"
But it is IMHO wrong. It is unlikely that a tree can grow at a place where it has a 3 month total night. Antarctica was covered in forests before it reached its position at the south pole. When it was there most likely only the edges were under forests.
On the other hand it is thinkable that trees at those times had a different metabolism than our times trees. Trees in our times basically shut down because of the cold. Perhaps they also can shut down because of lack of light? Or don't really need to shut down as long as it is warm enough?
Anyway, if we talk about "the south pole" as 0" position on earth: it is extremely unlikely that there ever was a forest.
Just google the period you are interested in.
Different atmosphere composition is the main reason.
Perhaps you find this interesting: http://news.nationalgeographic...
libertarian ideological nutcasery?
Why yo mention 'libertarians" in this case is beyond me. Does that word actually mean in your country what is written in the dictionary?
... muhuhhuhaaaa
A company can spy on you and an "agency" needs a warrant from a judge ...
Hm ... /me peeking his nose
Since antarctica is at the "south pole" it has no forests.
You are misinformed.
During the "Cretaceous period" Antarctica was not at the south pole. In fact I think it still was a part of Godwana land ... but I might be mistaken here :D
It is actually not very dirty, as your country and mine has regulations preventing factories to spill dirt/waste into the environment.
And: there are no real toxic products involved in making chips or PV panels anyway.
Not sure.
I think climate scientists tried very long to be "not alarmists" so they used to underestimate or "under publish" their predictions.
It was clear in the 1970s that the published prognosises were at the lower limit of what we really could expect. But between 1970 and 1990 not much was published as the industry tried to silence scientists. Around 1995 and 1998 with super hot summers no one could deny anymore that the scientists had a point. But right at that time suddenly the american "skeptics movement" started, how retarded.
You mean the tips of the Himalaya?
That is not in the north but east.
China has no real perma frost regions. You seem not to understand what the word means.
It means: soil that is frozen in winter, and from a certain depth, like 1 meter, or two, is not thawing in summer.
Here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/s...
Perma frost areas are not even 1% of the whole countries land mass.
Move to Asia.
Thailand or Vietnam.
Against popular believe the living standard is extremely high and cost of living extremely low. Well, you can not compare the standard of living with Norway or Denmark, but instead of cold winters you have just a rain season and a "hot season" and "cool season" ... cool means it is like may or june in germany.
On the other hand the standard of living, health care, food, infrastructure, internet, mobile phones beats most parts of Europe easily ... and the US ... well, never was there, but I guess there is a reason why my health insurance does not cover the US.
Where do you live?
I would like to experience a real winter again.
For me it is like 35 or 40 years in a row that we had no real winter. But well, I live in central Germany, not in the Alps or close to the pole.
When I was 8 - 15 we had like -30 degrees around Christmas, usually a bit later in mid January, but when I got my Apendix removed it started already around Christmas. 31th of december 1976 I believe, -33 degrees at midnight. Could have been 1977 ... not sure. A clear sky, Orion standing hight, the air as dry as in a desert, cold, the breath blown to a window froze immediately. A superb night ... I miss it.
Now we have +25 degrees (CELSIUS!) around Christmas ... it is just a chance that in late January or early february the scale goes below zero during daytime.
Snow? Sometimes the last years I woke up early and saw a glimpse of snow on the sidewalk ...
They're usually just asking for evidence and unmodified data ... world wide.
The data can usually be downloaded at the agency that gathered it, for free.
We have since over 30 years a world wide contract/agreement between research institutes/governments that every meteorologic data and climate research date is published and free to download
If anyone was a "skeptics" instead of a fraudster, he would sit in his basement, silent, and analyze or play how ever he wants with that data.