Cargo is what they're proposing, yes, and given the number of containers that fall off ships every year I suspect the risks of using hydrogen would be *less* than sending it by sea.
Building airships sounds a lot cheaper than building container ships, too. Those things are expensive.
Is it perhaps because they feel that the remedial actions required to address the findings could potentially negatively impact their lifestyles?
A rise in sea levels will affect their 'lifestyles' a couple of orders of magnitude more. It might even shut down Slashdot, the Cheeto factory and the WOW servers...think of that!
It has to be due to *something*. Heat doesn't just appear out of the vacuum.
This is somehow never explained in their 'the warming could be natural' diatribes.
* The only source of heat is the sun. * CO2 traps heat. * We're dumping billions of tons of CO2 into the air.
I don't see how it could be much simpler.
Answer to the other stupid argument:
Yes, The Earth was warmer at previous times in history. There's also sea fossils thousands of feet up in the mountains. The difference is that you expect a certain lifestyle and rising sea levels is incompatible with that lifestyle.
The whole point of this article (if you bother to read it) is that this new study was supposed to remove the slant....and it agreed with the 'slanted' ones, to the surprise of the people who thought it wouldn't.
a) How many megabytes per second can your hard drive read? b) How much RAM have you got? c) Divide (b) by (a)
With 4Gb it's not really shocking that it takes quite a while to come back from hibernation. 8Gb probably takes longer than booting on most hard drives.
It's not what you claimed was happening. Nor is it current.
Are you naive enough to think they stopped doing it because a few librarians complained? All it means is they changed the name and stopped doing it so openly.
Nor was it library-endorsed. And it certainly wasn't library-initiated.
I never said it was.
I think I see the problem now, you're a librarian (or know one personally). You think you/they have ethics and are personally offended by this.
I've got news: Ethics don't apply when the black SUVs arrive outside and people come in saying "Patriot Act". I've heard they can be very persuasive. You also can't ask questions and you're not allowed to tell anybody they were there (or even exist). Sure, a few stories about visits will get out but they'll seem like isolated incidents rather than anything systematic. Plus everything's computerized these days so quite often they can snoop in the background without anybody even knowing.
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Cargo is what they're proposing, yes, and given the number of containers that fall off ships every year I suspect the risks of using hydrogen would be *less* than sending it by sea.
Building airships sounds a lot cheaper than building container ships, too. Those things are expensive.
I thought this, too. Surely we're at the point (technology-wise) where hydrogen is viable for airships.
It doesn't leak out through the mylar though, it leaks out through the cheap-ass seams and the badly tied knot at the bottom.
If you get a good one they can float for months (I had one that did...)
Sure ... so long as you remake the video as well as the audio, eg. Mad Al Yankovitch.
As it is he's using somebody else's video for profit (direct or indirect)
"what recourse if any is available for artists who are caught in this situation?"
Ummm ... create original material instead of trying to cash in on other people's fame?
If bittorrent data is arriving at your machine then somebody's got your IP address. Period. No way around it.
It won't vanish, they'll just parrot the standard line about MJ causing paranoia/memory loss in some people.
At which point you can mutter about peanuts killing some people but they're not banned are they, and things will go on as before.
MJ prohibition is good for government - it creates government jobs and politicians can always use it show voters how tough they are.
Who are they going to piss off anyway, a bunch of stoners....? Woooo scary!
Did you know that no double-blind test has ever reproduced the MSG headache?
Maybe it's something else in the food...
Yeah, you could write a C++ compiler in PHP and use that instead of gcc.
One of the wars might be over. Most of the action is in Afghanistan these days.
And to add insult, their first Fisker $97K car only gets the equivalent of 19MPG -- the same as the average SUV. Damn, I'm mad.
You need to compare it to the Lambos, Ferraris, etc. in it's market segment. See how economical they are...
This is a drop in the ocean compared to the money given to GM so it could carry on losing money as fast as it ever did.
Are there any credible suspects other than "atmospheric composition" at the moment? All that heat doesn't just appear from the vacuum of space...
No, don't bother answering. If you do they'll just switch to argument B:
"Oh, don't worry! The Earth will have some sort of plan to deal with it naturally! Something's bound to appear and gobble up all the CO2!"
From those of us that have used touchscreens for 20 years.
By that I assume you mean 'anybody who's used an ATM or any of a dozen public devices with touch screens'?
Is it perhaps because they feel that the remedial actions required to address the findings could potentially negatively impact their lifestyles?
A rise in sea levels will affect their 'lifestyles' a couple of orders of magnitude more. It might even shut down Slashdot, the Cheeto factory and the WOW servers...think of that!
(And I'm not even joking...)
It has to be due to *something*. Heat doesn't just appear out of the vacuum.
This is somehow never explained in their 'the warming could be natural' diatribes.
* The only source of heat is the sun.
* CO2 traps heat.
* We're dumping billions of tons of CO2 into the air.
I don't see how it could be much simpler.
Answer to the other stupid argument:
Yes, The Earth was warmer at previous times in history. There's also sea fossils thousands of feet up in the mountains. The difference is that you expect a certain lifestyle and rising sea levels is incompatible with that lifestyle.
The whole point of this article (if you bother to read it) is that this new study was supposed to remove the slant. ...and it agreed with the 'slanted' ones, to the surprise of the people who thought it wouldn't.
* It's probably a buggy driver problem too.
Why? Do the math...
a) How many megabytes per second can your hard drive read?
b) How much RAM have you got?
c) Divide (b) by (a)
With 4Gb it's not really shocking that it takes quite a while to come back from hibernation. 8Gb probably takes longer than booting on most hard drives.
I can't help but think that people who marvel at improved boot times are rebooting their machines too much.
Either that or they're journalists.
Boot times are something that's easy to measure and they generate lots of pretty graphs to fill those column inches with.
I've found Windows 7 64 to be an excellent desktop operating system.
I have to agree with this. Windows 7 is a major step up from XP* and very hard to find fault technically. I can choose any OS but I'm using Windows 7.
[*] Mostly due to XP's memory manager being completely crap but that's another story.
It's not what you claimed was happening.
Nor is it current.
Are you naive enough to think they stopped doing it because a few librarians complained? All it means is they changed the name and stopped doing it so openly.
Nor was it library-endorsed.
And it certainly wasn't library-initiated.
I never said it was.
I think I see the problem now, you're a librarian (or know one personally). You think you/they have ethics and are personally offended by this.
I've got news: Ethics don't apply when the black SUVs arrive outside and people come in saying "Patriot Act". I've heard they can be very persuasive. You also can't ask questions and you're not allowed to tell anybody they were there (or even exist). Sure, a few stories about visits will get out but they'll seem like isolated incidents rather than anything systematic. Plus everything's computerized these days so quite often they can snoop in the background without anybody even knowing.
The problem with it is (IMHO) that they're just trying to recreate "Top Gear Greatest Hits" with American actors.
British Top gear isn't done by actors. The people on the show are the real people.
Top Gear UK is funded by the BBC, so they don't give a rat's ass about making fun of or otherwise demeaning the car companies.
They're allowed to say a particular model of car sucks, but not a car company...
Just when their controller matures a bit they switch to a different one....?
According to this bill that's probably all stolen goods, so, "yes"...
(that's how I read it anyway)