I live in the SE US and have seen a metric ass load of honeybees. Actually, I never noticed a decline.
Maybe I don't live far enough east though...
Regardless though, the overwhelming amount of O2 is actually produced at sea with landbound plants only being the "icing on the cake." Even so, most of the large land bound O2 contributors aren't honey bee pollinated...now the world would be a far less pretty place without the little guys flying around, but it would still be habitable.
The main thing about our ecosystem is that in general, on one species is absolutely essential to the whole thing (unless that species is absolutely rock solid and spread throughout like some odd chemistry bacteria). Even if there is a "weak link" that niche would be so nice if it's currently user died out that others would move in quickly to take it. Like you said, look to the past and be reassured.
"...where the largest collection of nuclear reactors on earth exists (active or otherwise)"
This is partially true. INEL is the largest collection of ONCE active reactors on Earth, but only two of the reactors are currently active (ATR and ATRC).
Were you replying to me? If so, you should re-read my position, I agree completely with what you have written. Stopping only "obvious Arabs" would be very stupid, stopping all "obvious Arabs" and then randomly selecting 1% of the population STILL isn't as effective as just stopping 5% of the population at random.
We ALL know the TSA isn't random in it's searches, but I don't think they ever really said they were. But they SHOULD be.
That though would fall under the term "suspicious behavior" not the sort of profiling the OP was refering to. If I'm not mistaken, doing things like you say WILL get you red flagged at an airport.
OK, a few notes... First off, I fly a lot and I have been "singled out" for my random search a few times. None of these times involved strip searches. They basically made me hand over my carry on and they went through it while another agent (or at a really small airport, the same agent) waved a metal detector over me very slowly and patted me down. Mildly invasive yes, strip search not quite... Second, profiling IS bad. Not because we are a happy feely culture that thinks race should never be identified, but because if there are a handful of "triggers" that automatically get one searched instead of random searches then "the terrorists" will just figure out those triggers and send up people that don't meet those triggers. It would end up being easy for true terrorist organizations to avoid while ONLY catching regular people (and really stupid terrorists).
Don't assume for a second that all terrorists are men between 20-35 years old with long beards and "ethnic" clothing.
Actually 99.6 is the average core body temp (normal is +/- 1 from that). 98.6 is the average oral temperature which is a bit below core (as measured by rectal probe).
You definitely have a point, but taking $75M in xbox 360's wouldn't hurt MS as much as you may think. Now MS DOES take in on the nose with the hardware ( I think I read that they are projected to be in the red about $75 on the consoles at intro), BUT if IBM then gives those out to employees MS has a pretty big upside. Right off the bat, those are people who will NOT hold out for the PS3, plus since they were GIVEN the XB360, they are far more likely to buy a bunch of games.
What IBM should do is either take it in mice and keyboards and then redistribute them with their own stuff or take them in XB360s and just keep them;)
I couldn't think of another way to differentiate words which are truly spelled wrong and typos. Obviously letter order is part of spelling, I should have specified letter CHOICE or something...
Your post just made me notice something. First off, I could read every word you posted...now most of the words you typed aren't really SPELLED wrong, but just typed very poorly (same letters, just mixed up..with the ends of each word staying the same). Still though, I COULD read every word of it. Second though, I noticed I read it at well under half normal speed. I wonder if we have to spend significantly more time processing text if it is "difficult" to visually understand...
Yea, if you are a subscriber you will see the future and know that in 10 minutes the main page will show the dissertation project of a mechanical engineer at MIT where he created "a continuous, uniform device designed for optimum rolling potential. This device will be unique among all such devices in that all points along its periphery will be the exact same distance from a shared centered point which doesn't necessarily exist as a physical entity."
sarcasm mode off...reinventing the wheel, for those who can't read between the lines...
OK, maybe I'm going about this the wrong way. Instead of trying to convince you using facts, I'll use anecdotes. Think about the last time the news or some cheesy newspaper reported on who/what some polically active celebrity voted on/for. Remember the last time that/. reported the voting record of Bill Gates just to prove that he is in bed with **** party? I don't, because it hasn't happened. Remember the last time you read that all of the people making over a million a year voted for **** (that wasn't just based on a stupid exit poll)??? I don't.
Don't you think that if our detailed voting records were truly out there that we would have heard who all these various people voted for? Don't tell me that you don't think that at least ONE prominent Republican voted for Kerry last November (or prominent Democrat that voted for Bush). Obviously I am not referring to Congressional voting records, that is an entirely different story.
I assure you "voter history" doesn't include a detailed report of who they voted FOR, but more information like when in the past they have voted. This is very valuable information to people like Blaemire Communications' customers, they aren't quite as worried about the people who have NEVER voted regardless of their demographics as they are the people who both meet their target audience AND have at least decent voting history, especially if they ALWAYS vote.
My wife actually works for the county clerk's office, I assure you all you get with that CD is a wide variety of statistics. Nothing you could link to an individual. The lowest level you could get would be to link to to a specific precint (maybe at a specific time), but not to an individual unless the polling place was nearly deserted and you recorded who entered when.
You mean because nerds with nothing better to do will now call me? Without posting it, I couldn't prove my point.
Do this real quick, go pick up your phone book. Turn it to a random page and pick out a name, now type the associated phone number into google. You get back their address. Did that just allow you to do something that would require a black hat? Nope.
I must admit though, me posting it in a place frequented by paranoid delusionals and complete idiots (in addition to the 10-25% that actually KNOW what is going on) wasn't the best possible move. But it was the only way I could call that particular moron's bluff completely.
The best he could do is purchase it COD, and I doubt many places ship like that anymore. Also, all I would have to do is NOT pay for it.
If that is all that it took to steal someones identity or gather CC information, there is no harm in posting it.
A simple trip to the phone book will quickly give that information. Simply typing a phone number (which one shouldn't really TRY to hide, nor COULD they hide without going out of their way) into Google will return with their address.
The person who just called me pretty much proved my point. They could easily get my phone number with the information I posted. Big deal. Calling ME to tell me it is a bad idea to post my info on/. is kind of pointless. The REASON it is a bad idea is because nerd without enough to do in their lives will call me, but that's it. There is no incriminating knowledge contained in my easily publicly available information. It also doesn't give someone access to my voting records.
Jeremy Jason Devers 1220 W Cleveland St #A6 Fayetteville, AR 72701
Tell me who I voted for in the last election. Oh, and since you have access to this information which isn't recorded, list who I voted for in the state and local elections too.
Uranium will eventually run out, but eventually the free energy available in the universe will become zero. Right now fission is a better tech with more life in it than combustion. We wouldn't have to completely rid ourselves of combustion overnight. If we eliminated the pollution caused by cars, oil, coal, and natural gas power plants we would have a FAR smaller impact on our environment even if planes and exotic use vehicles still depended on fossil fuels.
Eventually we will have the ability to use fusion in a productive system and we will be able to abandon fission...even that won't happen overnight.
It's important to realize that I wasn't directly condemning pollution, instead I was condemning the apathetic attitude TOWARDS pollution that the OP (and a LOT of people at large) had. Just because there are natural sources of something, doesn't mean that we can throw as much as we want into the system without tiping the balance of that system. I am not a Green Earth guy who thinks that we should all abandon everything we have and go back to being a hunter-gatherer. Instead I think that the modern world is a pretty nice place, however if there is a way to do something that gets 90% of the results for 125% of the costs but with only 55% of the impact on the environment the choice should be easy. I personally don't think that we will be able to continue down our current path for very much longer. We will have to change, a major part of that change will be reducing our energy demands significantly or changing the energy source to something more environmentally friendly. That won't happen until the people who SHOULD want it to happen (staunch eco backers) realize that they SHOULD want it to happen instead of protesting it. Even then it won't just happen, it will take time for them to undo the damage that they have caused to the general public's psyche in the realm of nuclear fission. They have spent years telling people the nuclear power is bad, so they can't all of a sudden switch sides and have everyone believe them. An analogy is rumored to be happening today in the world of PCs, Apple has spent years telling their customers that PPC is better than x86, they have been creating charts and graphs and using that info to sell Macs. Now, if they decide to go x86, they will have to convince their own believers that it is not only a good thing but that they were wrong all along. Also, just like the really far left eco types, the Mac vs PC thing has approached the level of religion (especially in some Mac circles) where convincing someone they are wrong isn't as simple as showing them data. It takes time.
I call bullshit. There is no way that a volcanic eruption released CFCs. I don't think you were making BS up though, I think you meant to say greenhouse gases.
While it is true that volcanic eruptions release huge amounts of greenhouse gases, that is all part of the natural cycle. Us directly adding to the amount breaks the cycle out of its normal boundaries.
Think about this analogy. Every year the sun directly delivers a hundred trillion watts of energy to Earth (I'm making numbers up because the numbers don't matter to the analogy), so that means that as long as we release under 99 trillion watts of chemical and nuclear energy then we are having less of an effect than the sun and so are insignificant. That is obviously complete and total bullshit, the sun supplies just enough energy to get us from near absolute zero to the nice climate we have, supplying nearly the same amount of energy over again would be completely insane.
Even if humans aren't the single largest cause of global warming, we are a contributor and if we don't like the changes that would accompany it then we should change our lifestyles.
I didn't think about that advantage, you could still set up a "breeding ground" that is shielded and allow the "workers" to do the toiling. Much like an ant colony...
On a side note, if in 40-100 years we are able to take some of the lessons learned by R. durans or the like and apply them to engineered species, then we can talk about sending higher life forms pretty much anywhere.
Imagine quintuple redundancy at the chromosome level with built in error detection and correction at such a high level. How that would work with sexual lifeforms is well beyond my ability to forecast, but with a truly engineered species we would have a lot of leeway.
True, but bacteria are far more capable of actually terraforming the planet. It would be a situation where you bootstrap the system and then put the simple to us but complex in the absolute form that people can still relate to up so that the public get interested.
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I live in the SE US and have seen a metric ass load of honeybees. Actually, I never noticed a decline.
Maybe I don't live far enough east though...
Regardless though, the overwhelming amount of O2 is actually produced at sea with landbound plants only being the "icing on the cake." Even so, most of the large land bound O2 contributors aren't honey bee pollinated...now the world would be a far less pretty place without the little guys flying around, but it would still be habitable.
The main thing about our ecosystem is that in general, on one species is absolutely essential to the whole thing (unless that species is absolutely rock solid and spread throughout like some odd chemistry bacteria). Even if there is a "weak link" that niche would be so nice if it's currently user died out that others would move in quickly to take it. Like you said, look to the past and be reassured.
"...where the largest collection of nuclear reactors on earth exists (active or otherwise)"
This is partially true. INEL is the largest collection of ONCE active reactors on Earth, but only two of the reactors are currently active (ATR and ATRC).
Were you replying to me? If so, you should re-read my position, I agree completely with what you have written. Stopping only "obvious Arabs" would be very stupid, stopping all "obvious Arabs" and then randomly selecting 1% of the population STILL isn't as effective as just stopping 5% of the population at random.
We ALL know the TSA isn't random in it's searches, but I don't think they ever really said they were. But they SHOULD be.
That though would fall under the term "suspicious behavior" not the sort of profiling the OP was refering to. If I'm not mistaken, doing things like you say WILL get you red flagged at an airport.
OK, a few notes... First off, I fly a lot and I have been "singled out" for my random search a few times. None of these times involved strip searches. They basically made me hand over my carry on and they went through it while another agent (or at a really small airport, the same agent) waved a metal detector over me very slowly and patted me down. Mildly invasive yes, strip search not quite...
Second, profiling IS bad. Not because we are a happy feely culture that thinks race should never be identified, but because if there are a handful of "triggers" that automatically get one searched instead of random searches then "the terrorists" will just figure out those triggers and send up people that don't meet those triggers. It would end up being easy for true terrorist organizations to avoid while ONLY catching regular people (and really stupid terrorists).
Don't assume for a second that all terrorists are men between 20-35 years old with long beards and "ethnic" clothing.
Actually 99.6 is the average core body temp (normal is +/- 1 from that). 98.6 is the average oral temperature which is a bit below core (as measured by rectal probe).
You definitely have a point, but taking $75M in xbox 360's wouldn't hurt MS as much as you may think. Now MS DOES take in on the nose with the hardware ( I think I read that they are projected to be in the red about $75 on the consoles at intro), BUT if IBM then gives those out to employees MS has a pretty big upside. Right off the bat, those are people who will NOT hold out for the PS3, plus since they were GIVEN the XB360, they are far more likely to buy a bunch of games.
;)
What IBM should do is either take it in mice and keyboards and then redistribute them with their own stuff or take them in XB360s and just keep them
I couldn't think of another way to differentiate words which are truly spelled wrong and typos. Obviously letter order is part of spelling, I should have specified letter CHOICE or something...
Your post just made me notice something. First off, I could read every word you posted...now most of the words you typed aren't really SPELLED wrong, but just typed very poorly (same letters, just mixed up..with the ends of each word staying the same). Still though, I COULD read every word of it. Second though, I noticed I read it at well under half normal speed. I wonder if we have to spend significantly more time processing text if it is "difficult" to visually understand...
They have, check on Google for more info. I believe that at least one of the companies won a medium amount of money.
No No No, we've ALWAYS been at war with Eurasia!
See even the newspaper says that much!
Yea, if you are a subscriber you will see the future and know that in 10 minutes the main page will show the dissertation project of a mechanical engineer at MIT where he created "a continuous, uniform device designed for optimum rolling potential. This device will be unique among all such devices in that all points along its periphery will be the exact same distance from a shared centered point which doesn't necessarily exist as a physical entity."
sarcasm mode off...reinventing the wheel, for those who can't read between the lines...
You know deep in his mom's basement you just got a really bad evil eye...
OK, maybe I'm going about this the wrong way. Instead of trying to convince you using facts, I'll use anecdotes. Think about the last time the news or some cheesy newspaper reported on who/what some polically active celebrity voted on/for. Remember the last time that /. reported the voting record of Bill Gates just to prove that he is in bed with **** party? I don't, because it hasn't happened. Remember the last time you read that all of the people making over a million a year voted for **** (that wasn't just based on a stupid exit poll)??? I don't.
Don't you think that if our detailed voting records were truly out there that we would have heard who all these various people voted for? Don't tell me that you don't think that at least ONE prominent Republican voted for Kerry last November (or prominent Democrat that voted for Bush). Obviously I am not referring to Congressional voting records, that is an entirely different story.
Read you links further.
http://blaemire.com/whatis.htm
I assure you "voter history" doesn't include a detailed report of who they voted FOR, but more information like when in the past they have voted. This is very valuable information to people like Blaemire Communications' customers, they aren't quite as worried about the people who have NEVER voted regardless of their demographics as they are the people who both meet their target audience AND have at least decent voting history, especially if they ALWAYS vote.
My wife actually works for the county clerk's office, I assure you all you get with that CD is a wide variety of statistics. Nothing you could link to an individual. The lowest level you could get would be to link to to a specific precint (maybe at a specific time), but not to an individual unless the polling place was nearly deserted and you recorded who entered when.
Thanks, now I can send the extra free copies to a friend that has always valued my subscription.
You mean because nerds with nothing better to do will now call me? Without posting it, I couldn't prove my point.
Do this real quick, go pick up your phone book. Turn it to a random page and pick out a name, now type the associated phone number into google. You get back their address. Did that just allow you to do something that would require a black hat? Nope.
I must admit though, me posting it in a place frequented by paranoid delusionals and complete idiots (in addition to the 10-25% that actually KNOW what is going on) wasn't the best possible move. But it was the only way I could call that particular moron's bluff completely.
You mean because he has my name and address?
/. is kind of pointless. The REASON it is a bad idea is because nerd without enough to do in their lives will call me, but that's it. There is no incriminating knowledge contained in my easily publicly available information. It also doesn't give someone access to my voting records.
The best he could do is purchase it COD, and I doubt many places ship like that anymore. Also, all I would have to do is NOT pay for it.
If that is all that it took to steal someones identity or gather CC information, there is no harm in posting it.
A simple trip to the phone book will quickly give that information. Simply typing a phone number (which one shouldn't really TRY to hide, nor COULD they hide without going out of their way) into Google will return with their address.
The person who just called me pretty much proved my point. They could easily get my phone number with the information I posted. Big deal. Calling ME to tell me it is a bad idea to post my info on
I call your bluff.
My valid info is:
Jeremy Jason Devers
1220 W Cleveland St #A6
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Tell me who I voted for in the last election. Oh, and since you have access to this information which isn't recorded, list who I voted for in the state and local elections too.
I think he was implying the electronics dept at a local store, not the HQ IT staff ;)
Uranium will eventually run out, but eventually the free energy available in the universe will become zero. Right now fission is a better tech with more life in it than combustion. We wouldn't have to completely rid ourselves of combustion overnight. If we eliminated the pollution caused by cars, oil, coal, and natural gas power plants we would have a FAR smaller impact on our environment even if planes and exotic use vehicles still depended on fossil fuels.
Eventually we will have the ability to use fusion in a productive system and we will be able to abandon fission...even that won't happen overnight.
It's important to realize that I wasn't directly condemning pollution, instead I was condemning the apathetic attitude TOWARDS pollution that the OP (and a LOT of people at large) had. Just because there are natural sources of something, doesn't mean that we can throw as much as we want into the system without tiping the balance of that system. I am not a Green Earth guy who thinks that we should all abandon everything we have and go back to being a hunter-gatherer. Instead I think that the modern world is a pretty nice place, however if there is a way to do something that gets 90% of the results for 125% of the costs but with only 55% of the impact on the environment the choice should be easy. I personally don't think that we will be able to continue down our current path for very much longer. We will have to change, a major part of that change will be reducing our energy demands significantly or changing the energy source to something more environmentally friendly. That won't happen until the people who SHOULD want it to happen (staunch eco backers) realize that they SHOULD want it to happen instead of protesting it. Even then it won't just happen, it will take time for them to undo the damage that they have caused to the general public's psyche in the realm of nuclear fission. They have spent years telling people the nuclear power is bad, so they can't all of a sudden switch sides and have everyone believe them. An analogy is rumored to be happening today in the world of PCs, Apple has spent years telling their customers that PPC is better than x86, they have been creating charts and graphs and using that info to sell Macs. Now, if they decide to go x86, they will have to convince their own believers that it is not only a good thing but that they were wrong all along. Also, just like the really far left eco types, the Mac vs PC thing has approached the level of religion (especially in some Mac circles) where convincing someone they are wrong isn't as simple as showing them data. It takes time.
I call bullshit. There is no way that a volcanic eruption released CFCs. I don't think you were making BS up though, I think you meant to say greenhouse gases.
While it is true that volcanic eruptions release huge amounts of greenhouse gases, that is all part of the natural cycle. Us directly adding to the amount breaks the cycle out of its normal boundaries.
Think about this analogy. Every year the sun directly delivers a hundred trillion watts of energy to Earth (I'm making numbers up because the numbers don't matter to the analogy), so that means that as long as we release under 99 trillion watts of chemical and nuclear energy then we are having less of an effect than the sun and so are insignificant. That is obviously complete and total bullshit, the sun supplies just enough energy to get us from near absolute zero to the nice climate we have, supplying nearly the same amount of energy over again would be completely insane.
Even if humans aren't the single largest cause of global warming, we are a contributor and if we don't like the changes that would accompany it then we should change our lifestyles.
I didn't think about that advantage, you could still set up a "breeding ground" that is shielded and allow the "workers" to do the toiling. Much like an ant colony...
On a side note, if in 40-100 years we are able to take some of the lessons learned by R. durans or the like and apply them to engineered species, then we can talk about sending higher life forms pretty much anywhere.
Imagine quintuple redundancy at the chromosome level with built in error detection and correction at such a high level. How that would work with sexual lifeforms is well beyond my ability to forecast, but with a truly engineered species we would have a lot of leeway.
True, but bacteria are far more capable of actually terraforming the planet. It would be a situation where you bootstrap the system and then put the simple to us but complex in the absolute form that people can still relate to up so that the public get interested.