What is the problem with putting the putting the emissions back in the ground?
"The Problem" with putting emissions back into the ground is that it isn't sustainable. If we are combusting carbon fuels with atmospheric oxygen, then eventually we're going to run out of Oxygen. Earth's oxygen will be trapped somewhere "in the ground".
C'mon guys, this isn't the first "young genius revolutionizes solar industry" article that we've see. Don't you remember the one about the hot chick who made solar cells with an inkjet and a pizza oven? I give the kid some mad props; he's going places. But I doubt this will turn into commercially viable technology.
Not all employers are going to be so judgmental. I actually got a job *offer* after prospective employers saw my myspace page. And the offer was for a government job! All this despite compromising material (with photos) chronicling my sexual exploits, cocaine addiction, and even some graft.
Now I have a great job interfacing with energy lobbyists for the Minerals Management Service at the US Department of the Interior. It's a very open and free atmosphere unhindered by the traditional restraints of so-called "professional" environments.
So my advice to everyone is cyberspace is just be yourself. Some people might not like you, but being honest will help you find the fit you deserve.
"40% - candidate posted provocative or inappropriate photographs or information"
"40% - candidate was a good fit for the company culture"
"inappropriate information" and "good fit for company's culture" are meaningless catchall terms for anything the hiring agent likes or dislikes. It could be religion, political opinions, or sexual proclivities. It could even just be that you're Texan.
People tend to hire people like themselves. Hitting up Facebook to check out potential hirees only exacerbates the problem. Once you start looking at people's social networking sites the question stops being "Who's the most qualified?" and starts being "Who do I like best?" and qualifications become secondary.
Physicists agree on all material that would be included in a high-school level physics textbook. Now an open-source Bible? That would be complicated by disagreement.
There are two aspects of this story that appeal to me: 1) graduate student makes clever, economical solution to solar cell manufacturing. 2) this girl genius is totally hot!
Chick means a young attractive girl. Chick is a positive word embraced by many young women and used in women's media.
Should slashdot even indicate that she's hot? Yes: the largely male readership of slashdot is interested. I know I was. I still value her intellectual achievement, I just also think she's got it going on. Like every other honest red-blooded male on slashdot I want to jump her bones, including her first-rate cranium. What is so wrong with that? NOTHING.
1) It closed many loopholes that allowed the warrentless wiretaps in the first place.
Warrentless wiretaps were never "allowed". The President just decided to break the law. That's not a "loophole."
2) Requires further wiretaps to follow at least some process (process isn't perfect but its better than the lack of process before).
No, there was a very clear process before: It was called "Get a warrant from the FISA court."
1) Provides retroactive immunity to telecoms, it doesn't provide forward immunity though.
Congress de facto did provide forward legal immunity by legalizing the warrantless wiretaps.
2) Expands wiretapping provisions over the old laws, but as I said earlier previously the old laws were ignored completely... Shrugs.
You know why they ignored the laws? Because they knew that Congress was a pack of bitches who would instantly bend over in the unlikely event that this lawless behaviour ever saw the light of day. Which is precisely why all these 'safeguards' that imbeciles keep bringing up in defense of this bill are so meaningless. If Congress not only refuses to investigate but actively protects the executive branch from the law, then the executive branch will do whatever it wants no matter what pretty nicities got injected into this bill for cosmetic effect. Idiots!
I wouldn't label shredding the rule-of-law an "unpopular item" and I wouldn't call the this bill an "otherwise popular bill". This bill legalizes wireless domestic spying without any meaningful oversight whatsoever. It legalizes exactly the sort of lawless behavior Bush got away with in the first place.
My girlfriend is doing her PhD on tin-whiskers. True: Tin whiskering is not fully understood, and studies suggest contradictory causes of whiskering. But whiskering _is_ a very real phenomenon, certainly in the realm of "Fact" and not "Fiction".
I tend agree with you, but it's important to also consider how we currently subsidize fossil fuels and nuclear by allowing them generate waste without paying for it. We also subsidize these industries with government subsidized insurance, preferential tax treatment, subsidized loans, and sometimes direct payments.
It's an economic imperative that alternate energy has a level playing field. We can do this either by eliminating unfair subsidizes that fossil fuels and nuclear get and charging them for their waste products, or we can provide subsidies to alternate energy. Either way is good. But as skewed as our policy is now, the introduction of incentives for alternate energy would help restore the true market incentives.
Nuclear can compete with oil. Los Alamos National Laboratory has created a synthetic fuel concept that uses the cooling towers of nuclear reactor to efficiently harvest carbon and then synthesize gasoline. After distribution costs are factored in, the break-even price is around $4.60 a gallon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/science/19carb.html
What are you talking about? Spanish cuisine is fabulous. They really get the spice right and produce very rich dining experiences that are actually quite healthy. Tortilla Espanola, Paella, Sopa de Mariscos, Fabada Asturiana, Gazpacho: all of these are great dishes. If you honestly prefer American "cuisine" (fast-food, processed food, junk food) to Spanish cuisine (made with real ingredients like honest-to-God plants and animals)... well, I'm not going to argue with you. But I think its tragic that your palate has become so acclimated to the industrial by-products of our nation's subsidized corn surplus that it can't even recognize real food anymore.
There's really no way to speculate about whether or not a crime occured without actually seeing the allegedly obscene images. For the sake of clarity can somebody post these so-called "racy pix" or email them to me (mfoley@hotmail). thx
TMobile says that they are doing this for business reasons up front. That's much better than inventing some legalistic bs about how blocking IM is a vital part of network security and war on terror.
Oh that's right, it's the per capita spending that matters... because when you get into a modern war you simply compare rates of per capita spending to decide who wins. It's a good thing wars aren't decided by absolute measure of military power like they used to do in less progressive eras.
You're willing to live in a garage and scrounge dumpsters for materials just so you can be a "scientist/engineer"?
Dude, that's not being principled that's being a sucker. Ever think that the reason scientists are underpaid is that suckers like you are willing to accept shit pay, no benefits, and an enormous opportunity cost just for the priviledge of doing science? Maybe if you valued your own dignity enough to not go rummaging through dumpsters then some of us could finally get a raise.
The fact that we love what we do should be an asset to our work and a reason to pay us more, not a reason to deduct our pay.
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No. Throwing a bottle away is much better than pumping C02 in the ground because when you throw away a bottle you aren't throwing away Oxygen.
"The Problem" with putting emissions back into the ground is that it isn't sustainable. If we are combusting carbon fuels with atmospheric oxygen, then eventually we're going to run out of Oxygen. Earth's oxygen will be trapped somewhere "in the ground".
C'mon guys, this isn't the first "young genius revolutionizes solar industry" article that we've see. Don't you remember the one about the hot chick who made solar cells with an inkjet and a pizza oven? I give the kid some mad props; he's going places. But I doubt this will turn into commercially viable technology.
I was actually being facetious. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/washington/11royalty.html?bl&ex=1221278400&en=139555dd265b8c71&ei=5087%0A
Not all employers are going to be so judgmental. I actually got a job *offer* after prospective employers saw my myspace page. And the offer was for a government job! All this despite compromising material (with photos) chronicling my sexual exploits, cocaine addiction, and even some graft.
Now I have a great job interfacing with energy lobbyists for the Minerals Management Service at the US Department of the Interior. It's a very open and free atmosphere unhindered by the traditional restraints of so-called "professional" environments.
So my advice to everyone is cyberspace is just be yourself. Some people might not like you, but being honest will help you find the fit you deserve.
"inappropriate information" and "good fit for company's culture" are meaningless catchall terms for anything the hiring agent likes or dislikes. It could be religion, political opinions, or sexual proclivities. It could even just be that you're Texan.
People tend to hire people like themselves. Hitting up Facebook to check out potential hirees only exacerbates the problem. Once you start looking at people's social networking sites the question stops being "Who's the most qualified?" and starts being "Who do I like best?" and qualifications become secondary.
Physicists agree on all material that would be included in a high-school level physics textbook. Now an open-source Bible? That would be complicated by disagreement.
Yes, all those words are basically interchangeable. Hey, did you get the latest album by the Dixie Spics? It's pretty good, you should check it out.
Chick means a young attractive girl. Chick is a positive word embraced by many young women and used in women's media.
Should slashdot even indicate that she's hot? Yes: the largely male readership of slashdot is interested. I know I was. I still value her intellectual achievement, I just also think she's got it going on. Like every other honest red-blooded male on slashdot I want to jump her bones, including her first-rate cranium. What is so wrong with that? NOTHING.
1) It closed many loopholes that allowed the warrentless wiretaps in the first place.
Warrentless wiretaps were never "allowed". The President just decided to break the law. That's not a "loophole."
2) Requires further wiretaps to follow at least some process (process isn't perfect but its better than the lack of process before).
No, there was a very clear process before: It was called "Get a warrant from the FISA court."
1) Provides retroactive immunity to telecoms, it doesn't provide forward immunity though.
Congress de facto did provide forward legal immunity by legalizing the warrantless wiretaps.
2) Expands wiretapping provisions over the old laws, but as I said earlier previously the old laws were ignored completely... Shrugs.
You know why they ignored the laws? Because they knew that Congress was a pack of bitches who would instantly bend over in the unlikely event that this lawless behaviour ever saw the light of day. Which is precisely why all these 'safeguards' that imbeciles keep bringing up in defense of this bill are so meaningless. If Congress not only refuses to investigate but actively protects the executive branch from the law, then the executive branch will do whatever it wants no matter what pretty nicities got injected into this bill for cosmetic effect. Idiots!
I wouldn't label shredding the rule-of-law an "unpopular item" and I wouldn't call the this bill an "otherwise popular bill". This bill legalizes wireless domestic spying without any meaningful oversight whatsoever. It legalizes exactly the sort of lawless behavior Bush got away with in the first place.
My girlfriend is doing her PhD on tin-whiskers. True: Tin whiskering is not fully understood, and studies suggest contradictory causes of whiskering. But whiskering _is_ a very real phenomenon, certainly in the realm of "Fact" and not "Fiction".
I tend agree with you, but it's important to also consider how we currently subsidize fossil fuels and nuclear by allowing them generate waste without paying for it. We also subsidize these industries with government subsidized insurance, preferential tax treatment, subsidized loans, and sometimes direct payments. It's an economic imperative that alternate energy has a level playing field. We can do this either by eliminating unfair subsidizes that fossil fuels and nuclear get and charging them for their waste products, or we can provide subsidies to alternate energy. Either way is good. But as skewed as our policy is now, the introduction of incentives for alternate energy would help restore the true market incentives.
Nuclear can compete with oil. Los Alamos National Laboratory has created a synthetic fuel concept that uses the cooling towers of nuclear reactor to efficiently harvest carbon and then synthesize gasoline. After distribution costs are factored in, the break-even price is around $4.60 a gallon. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/science/19carb.html
you nailed it.
What are you talking about? Spanish cuisine is fabulous. They really get the spice right and produce very rich dining experiences that are actually quite healthy. Tortilla Espanola, Paella, Sopa de Mariscos, Fabada Asturiana, Gazpacho: all of these are great dishes. If you honestly prefer American "cuisine" (fast-food, processed food, junk food) to Spanish cuisine (made with real ingredients like honest-to-God plants and animals) ... well, I'm not going to argue with you. But I think its tragic that your palate has become so acclimated to the industrial by-products of our nation's subsidized corn surplus that it can't even recognize real food anymore.
There's really no way to speculate about whether or not a crime occured without actually seeing the allegedly obscene images. For the sake of clarity can somebody post these so-called "racy pix" or email them to me (mfoley@hotmail). thx
thanks for sharing.
The author of the parent thread is employeed by Exxon-Mobile.
that might have done it. which of the the internets are you on?
My money is on LANL. Go LANL Go!
No Kidding. I need to pirate a fresh copy of Norton Anti-Virus off some P2P service before I fall victim to such a Trojan.
TMobile says that they are doing this for business reasons up front. That's much better than inventing some legalistic bs about how blocking IM is a vital part of network security and war on terror.
Oh that's right, it's the per capita spending that matters... because when you get into a modern war you simply compare rates of per capita spending to decide who wins. It's a good thing wars aren't decided by absolute measure of military power like they used to do in less progressive eras.
You're willing to live in a garage and scrounge dumpsters for materials just so you can be a "scientist/engineer"?
Dude, that's not being principled that's being a sucker. Ever think that the reason scientists are underpaid is that suckers like you are willing to accept shit pay, no benefits, and an enormous opportunity cost just for the priviledge of doing science? Maybe if you valued your own dignity enough to not go rummaging through dumpsters then some of us could finally get a raise.
The fact that we love what we do should be an asset to our work and a reason to pay us more, not a reason to deduct our pay.