Yes and no. Once that water has evaporated it's not going to be available for irrigation for a very long time.
That "lost" 98%, which as you correctly note is not "lost" it has merely evaporated or become runoff, is now water that is not available to be immediately used for any other immediate purpose. (Sort of like money and near-money in economics.)
The point of calculating water footprints like this is to determine the sustainability of current practices, it allows you to calculate how much of various crops can be produced with a certain amount of available water.
measuring the amount of water flowing through a meter upstream of the tomato field
And that was exactly the point. These sorts of calculations are very meaningful to farmers who have to beg, borrow or steal that water.
California, this is what you get for attempting to support a massive population in a semi-arid region. (And not just the local population, you crazy fools export that food to places that have a water surplus.)
I agree that Gnome 3 out of the box is a bit of a train-wreck in terms of usability, but what I discovered is now that gnome-shell has been around for a while there's lots of extensions that make it highly configurable and I have to confess I like what I can do with it.
But what I can do with it is nothing like the default behavior.:)
There's revenue everywhere... workers have to be retrained, entire application stacks have to be re-built from the ground up, new languages and toolsets have to be built and monetized, everybody wins - it's called 'productive economic activity'...
According to Wikipedia the Spitfire was designed from the start as a fighter. It may have been used in races but so was the P-51 (another purpose built fighter). You may have been thinking of this aircraft which contributed to the Spitfire design but was a completely different aircraft.
Looks like I'm slightly miss-remembering some of the history, the racing ancestry goes back to the 20s with the Supermarine S4 and S5, the first attempt to militarize this was the Type 224 that was specifically for a military test contract. This led directly to the Spitfire. (In fact Supermarine asked the RAF to reserve the Spitfire name while testing the 224.)
I don't remember where I read this now, but my recollection is that the designer R. J. Mitchell viewed Spitfire as a direct descendant of the racing planes from the 20s.
The Bugatti was a race aircraft and not a combat aircraft. Yes it could go fast but was useless in combat.
The Spitfire started life as a racing plane design in 1931 based on previous successful designs, the actual Spitfire was demonstrated in 1936 and went into production in 1938.
Given that this 100p was still not even flight worthy in 1939 it seems it would have needed five to ten years of development to turn it into a production combat aircraft.
Even the Mustang P51 took four years to go from concept to production and that was a major manufacturer under war conditions with government backing.
It's a fantasy, there's no way an aircraft that was so experimental in 1939 that it couldn't even fly could have been refined, militarized, produced in reasonable numbers and trained for in time for the Battle of Britain.
it would still have the option of training new pilots in Canada
Which they were already doing (Which you probably knew or you wouldn't have mentioned it.)
I actually grew up within walking distance of one that stayed operational as a municipal airport. Coincidentally 15 years ago I met a British veteran who had trained there towards the end of the war. He had fond memories of his posting to Canada.
Spriggs said he was stuck in traffic at the time, and therefore it would have been impossible to be driving recklessly.
He has also said that he opposes phone calls and texting while driving and would support reckless driving charges for mobile phone users where appropriate, but this was not one of those cases so he challenged the ticket.
Mais quel con ! Depuis quand Slashdot opère du Québec ? Pis si une personne opère une boutique à Chelsea en se foutant du français, elle n'aura AUCUNE sympathie de ma part, merci.
I've spent a lot of time in Chelsea but I'm yet to hear anyone speak French there other than my kids.
It has not legally been bill 101 since it was passed over 30 years ago.
There is no such thing as bill 101, we just like to continue calling it that.
(For our American cousins following along at home, most of this legislation was actually deemed unconstitutional about 25 years ago, but remains standing due to an enormous loophole in the Constitution that was intended to be used for emergency powers but has been interpreted to mean whatever they want it to mean.)
I like how you ignores the fact that under his plans everything has improved. deficit? better. Market? healthier. Jobs? unemployment continues to decline.
Clearly, this pure nonsense. The only reason this President (who is criminal in such obvious, brazen and obnoxious way) has not been impeached is that given a history of past racism, impeaching the first black President would be unthinkable. He has carte blanche to commit crimes and he is charging it to the fullest. Hopefully, the country can still survive after he is done. Because, believe you me, immigration is a pretty damn hard undertaking.
It would help if people remembered that the economic crash, and massive government debt load was caused by conservative thinking and a useless war.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment steadily declined from 6.3% in June 2003 to 4.4% in May 2007..
Between May 2007, and the end of Bush's term in December 2008 unemployment steadily rose to 7.8%, an increase of 2.9%.
That trend continued until October 2009 where it peaked at 10%.
So yes, in the first 9 or 10 months of Obamas administration unemployment rose 2.7%. However a steady decline in unemployment then began, declining from a peak of 10% in October 2009 to the current 6.7%, 1.1% lower than when he took office.
In otherwords the situation began to improve within 10 months of Obama taking office.
So we see a net increase in unemployment under Bush from 4.1% When he took office in January 2001, to 7.8% when he left, an increase of 3.7%.
Again, under Bush an increase of 3.7%, under Obama a decrease of 1.1% DESPITE the financial crisis caused by his predecessor.
a legitimate outlet that could save the free world
LOL. Wikileaks hasn't accomplished a damn thing.
There are lots of reactions from governments from around the world, but I'm curious to what extent this is simply a case of: "I am shocked, SHOCKED to find espionage going on here!"
Slashdot Mirror
One of you managed to make my eyes bleed, but I'm not sure which one.
Thank you Captain Bad Analogy. Here's my attempt:
This is like running down the street naked and then being surprised when a picture of your junk shows up online.
Yes and no. Once that water has evaporated it's not going to be available for irrigation for a very long time.
That "lost" 98%, which as you correctly note is not "lost" it has merely evaporated or become runoff, is now water that is not available to be immediately used for any other immediate purpose. (Sort of like money and near-money in economics.)
The point of calculating water footprints like this is to determine the sustainability of current practices, it allows you to calculate how much of various crops can be produced with a certain amount of available water.
measuring the amount of water flowing through a meter upstream of the tomato field
And that was exactly the point. These sorts of calculations are very meaningful to farmers who have to beg, borrow or steal that water.
California, this is what you get for attempting to support a massive population in a semi-arid region. (And not just the local population, you crazy fools export that food to places that have a water surplus.)
I agree that Gnome 3 out of the box is a bit of a train-wreck in terms of usability, but what I discovered is now that gnome-shell has been around for a while there's lots of extensions that make it highly configurable and I have to confess I like what I can do with it.
But what I can do with it is nothing like the default behavior. :)
"Taking The System Down From The Inside?" or "The Man's Ultimate Long Con?"
We ask vague, hyperbolic, questions; you fight it out in the comments section!
T H I S I S S L A S H D O T !
*flying kick*
Not really, no.
Perhaps I'm just jealous that I don't have enough time to fuck around with dead platforms, but I doubt it.
Or spend a few bucks on Amiga Forever and not have that problem?
Or you could stop fucking around with a dead platform and move on with your life.
There's revenue everywhere ... workers have to be retrained, entire application stacks have to be re-built from the ground up, new languages and toolsets have to be built and monetized, everybody wins - it's called 'productive economic activity' ...
So true, but a small part of me just died.
According to Wikipedia the Spitfire was designed from the start as a fighter. It may have been used in races but so was the P-51 (another purpose built fighter). You may have been thinking of this aircraft which contributed to the Spitfire design but was a completely different aircraft.
Looks like I'm slightly miss-remembering some of the history, the racing ancestry goes back to the 20s with the Supermarine S4 and S5, the first attempt to militarize this was the Type 224 that was specifically for a military test contract. This led directly to the Spitfire. (In fact Supermarine asked the RAF to reserve the Spitfire name while testing the 224.)
I don't remember where I read this now, but my recollection is that the designer R. J. Mitchell viewed Spitfire as a direct descendant of the racing planes from the 20s.
The Bugatti was a race aircraft and not a combat aircraft. Yes it could go fast but was useless in combat.
The Spitfire started life as a racing plane design in 1931 based on previous successful designs, the actual Spitfire was demonstrated in 1936 and went into production in 1938.
Given that this 100p was still not even flight worthy in 1939 it seems it would have needed five to ten years of development to turn it into a production combat aircraft.
Even the Mustang P51 took four years to go from concept to production and that was a major manufacturer under war conditions with government backing.
It's a fantasy, there's no way an aircraft that was so experimental in 1939 that it couldn't even fly could have been refined, militarized, produced in reasonable numbers and trained for in time for the Battle of Britain.
it would still have the option of training new pilots in Canada
Which they were already doing (Which you probably knew or you wouldn't have mentioned it.)
I actually grew up within walking distance of one that stayed operational as a municipal airport. Coincidentally 15 years ago I met a British veteran who had trained there towards the end of the war. He had fond memories of his posting to Canada.
It's as if the internet is full of wack jobs. Do you not know when to use its? Do you know it exists, its?
I am shocked, SHOCKED, to find the internet is full of wack jobs and grammar Nazis!
In what way isn't the hypothesis our government or at least certain parts of it actively sought to destroy Bitcoin reasonable?
How about a complete lack of evidence?
But I'm sure that's going to be as successful an argument with the Bitards as it is with anyone who believes in things without evidence.
I assume you're joking
I would have guessed that US-UK relations have taken a turn for the worse due to Dell customer support.
Spriggs said he was stuck in traffic at the time, and therefore it would have been impossible to be driving recklessly.
He has also said that he opposes phone calls and texting while driving and would support reckless driving charges for mobile phone users where appropriate, but this was not one of those cases so he challenged the ticket.
Mais quel con ! Depuis quand Slashdot opère du Québec ? Pis si une personne opère une boutique à Chelsea en se foutant du français, elle n'aura AUCUNE sympathie de ma part, merci.
I've spent a lot of time in Chelsea but I'm yet to hear anyone speak French there other than my kids.
This has nothing to do with religion or race you xenophobic moron.
Bullshit, the Quebec cultural issues are xenophobia writ large, it's a manufactured us vs. them.
It's the same bloody game the nazis played in the 1930s.
If you're not with them, you're against them. You must be anti-french, etc. etc.
Quebec please fuck off, next Referendum vote yes we don't want you and you don't like us
We're all a little fed up, but no, you don't speak for all of Canada, you're just a very vocal minority of rednecks.
It has not legally been bill 101 since it was passed over 30 years ago.
There is no such thing as bill 101, we just like to continue calling it that.
(For our American cousins following along at home, most of this legislation was actually deemed unconstitutional about 25 years ago, but remains standing due to an enormous loophole in the Constitution that was intended to be used for emergency powers but has been interpreted to mean whatever they want it to mean.)
I like how you ignores the fact that under his plans everything has improved. deficit? better. Market? healthier. Jobs? unemployment continues to decline.
Clearly, this pure nonsense. The only reason this President (who is criminal in such obvious, brazen and obnoxious way) has not been impeached is that given a history of past racism, impeaching the first black President would be unthinkable. He has carte blanche to commit crimes and he is charging it to the fullest. Hopefully, the country can still survive after he is done. Because, believe you me, immigration is a pretty damn hard undertaking.
It would help if people remembered that the economic crash, and massive government debt load was caused by conservative thinking and a useless war.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment steadily declined from 6.3% in June 2003 to 4.4% in May 2007..
Between May 2007, and the end of Bush's term in December 2008 unemployment steadily rose to 7.8%, an increase of 2.9%.
That trend continued until October 2009 where it peaked at 10%.
So yes, in the first 9 or 10 months of Obamas administration unemployment rose 2.7%. However a steady decline in unemployment then began, declining from a peak of 10% in October 2009 to the current 6.7%, 1.1% lower than when he took office.
In otherwords the situation began to improve within 10 months of Obama taking office.
So we see a net increase in unemployment under Bush from 4.1% When he took office in January 2001, to 7.8% when he left, an increase of 3.7%.
Again, under Bush an increase of 3.7%, under Obama a decrease of 1.1% DESPITE the financial crisis caused by his predecessor.
So, I assume you propose a barter system then?
Be less ridiculous.
All currencies are a barter system.
Yes. But it's a secret so don't tell anyone.
Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink.
a legitimate outlet that could save the free world
LOL. Wikileaks hasn't accomplished a damn thing.
There are lots of reactions from governments from around the world, but I'm curious to what extent this is simply a case of: "I am shocked, SHOCKED to find espionage going on here!"
I knew a girl in high school that didn't like to be touched on her ankle. Something about her height and being stuff into waste bins or something.
You might find that's not so unusual, nor as gender specific an issue as you seem to to think. ...
And it was a locker.... ...
And fuck you all.
"arse"
An alternative spelling of "ass" (or vice-versa).
Basically she's saying that he's a groper.
They're not quite equivalent, thought hey have the same 1000 year old root word.
Arse is just anatomy, but ass can all refer to equids like donkeys.
"Don't be an ass." Therefore has a double meaning, while "Don't be an arse." is more simplistic.