It is technically possible for one of two things to occur that would create a mini ice age, even if those pushing this are really anti-science global warming deniers.
1. The Alaska to Northern California subduction zone "jumps", triggering massive tsunamis and setting off nearby earthquake unzipping along the Alaska, BC, Washington, Oregon, and Northern California linked fault lines, which could (but most likely would not) cause some of the active volcanoes near this line (like Mount Hood, Mount Rainier, and so on) to activate in full eruption. The resulting atmospheric emissions would cause a mini ice age similar to that during the last mini ice age (also called the Dark Ages).
2. Yellowstone could erupt. If that happens, you have a lot more to worry about, other than the mini ice age that would certainly occur.
That said, those pushing this are really just anti-science global warming deniers, desperate for continuing government subsidies for their dying fossil fuel industries.
Exactly. We can - and have - changed construction codes so that buildings won't collapse as badly, but anything over an 8.0 will cause 50 percent of all buildings and bridges to collapse and there really is not much you can do about that. Even tsunami risks are mostly about climbing to higher ground or getting on top of the tallest buildings.
Beyond that, while we do have a NOAA alert system now (hosted by the UW as an app for your phone), it's not going to do you much good if half of everything shakes to pieces.
Have a container of water and a whistle in every room. That will be useful, as you can survive a month without food, but only 2-3 days without water.
technically that only applies to places on the actual coast. Anywhere in the Puget Sound south of Everett has this giant mountain range called the Olympic Mountains protecting it (you know, the place Twilight movies are located).
At most 1-2 blocks next to the water are vulnerable in the actual Puget Sound, and that's from the Seattle fault itself.
1. Keep a container of water and a whistle in each room. You can survive a month without food, but only 2-3 days without water.
2. There is not enough airlift to rescue even 1/20th of the injured. Only children in schools will be rescued. If you are in a Deep Bertha Tunnel, you will die there as the power goes out and the fans and pumps stop working.
3. Don't worry about Tsunami risk if you live in the Puget Sound, south of Everett. Unless you live within a block of the ocean. If so, get on the roof.
4. Half of all buildings and bridges will collapse in anything over an 8.0. Nothing we can do about that. You're safer in buildings built since the 90s.
5. Don't you wish you had a solar panel now? That will keep working, even in cloud cover. Enough for a fridge and microwave.
Just wondering if you think that the vast majority of middle school boys that participate in GamerGate attacks on women gamers are starting this due to perceived peer pressure, or do you think it's a reaction to the hostility towards young women built into movies and certain game types, and is it only because they won't bathe, floss, or brush teeth that they take their anger out on adult gamer women?
Wondering, because neither my son nor I did this, and we've been gamers since middle school, but notice a lot of the GamerGate participants seem to be mostly middle schooler boys.
OK... I'm going to play Devil's advocate here and ask you a couple questions...
Assume they do just as you say. What do you do with those that violate even that copyright term? You see, today things are copied usually the day they are released or in most cases even before they are released. Just how do you stop that? If you really intend to be fair, until you can answer those you are just blowing smoke.
Easy. Dissolve the corporation and use it's assets to pay off the national debt.
Since corporations aren't people, this seems more than fair.
Make the copyright only go to the person in 13 year periods, renewable for their life, and with one extension if they have a spouse or children that survive them.
Only allow corporations to rent part of a 13 year period. Forcing them to renegotiate with the living human for each cycle.
In the Seattle-Bellevue area "average" wage is driven up by a lot of senior execs pretending to be programmers. Median salary for actual starting employees not counting benefits is what matters, and what you get taxed on.
Just because Bill Gates makes $20 billion doesn't make me a millionaire (even if I am).
Nice try, but the cost of living in certain cities is what drives up salaries.
If you live in Spokane WA, you're going to get paid a LOT less than if you live in Seattle WA.
If you live in NYC or San Francisco or San Diego, same thing.
They say things like this to justify sending more H1-B visas to firms like Tata to get cheaper employees while it's the literal cost of living that's actually driving up the prices.
To someone in Podunk, Illinois, they hear this and believe it, but you can hire someone you'd pay $100k for in SF for only $26K there. And salaries done by averages tend to inflate it by adding total compensation - retirement, sick leave, vacations, health insurance, etc. So you won't clear $100k, you'll be lucky to get $60k.
1984 was right, it was just 20 years early, and this is the script they are working off of.
Look, we all know where the terrorists are and who is spreading it, and how to track and follow them. Encryption is no more a threat than a candy bar behind a locked glass case in a supermarket too high for kids to reach is.
The reason they defeat the spies is the spies are too stupid, and ignore the real threats due to the massive overkill of non-relevant data and metadata that obfuscates the actual threats.
They already have access to your phones and already subvert them for target cases, so it's just more justification for insane stuff we don't need.
I see you're new here. Unlike you, I've managed to get many of my ideas put into practice in this state, when others said it couldn't be done. I've also managed to see that something was not going to happen and predict that with a high level of certainty, due to the nature of this state, on a regular basis.
You can waste your time. I'm not going to.
Rail against the dying of the light if you wish, and battle with the tides. I'll be collecting clams on the beach and having a clam bake instead.
Actually, most Business graduates probably took formal Project Management courses, and most CSE graduates probably took formal Project Management courses. PMP is for people who are lacking a degree with courses in the field.
Is it Microsoft's fault that the US tax system is so fucking broken? No, it's not. Microsoft isn't obligated to "repay" its tax savings. You're a shitty editor and you should feel shitty.
Not to downsay that, but the tax rate for tech company stock owners is very very very low here, we don't have a state income tax or a capital gains tax, and they tend to pay 1/3 what most workers pay.
Also, they are rescinding the mandatory K-12 classroom size reduction the voters passed, ignoring it so they can build more roads and tax exempt property access for tech companies.
In our latest studies on various diseases associated with aging, many are now following younger subjects. The major problem is that annual followups tend not to work as well, since younger people are busy, so you have to go from an annual cycle to an every 2-3 year cycle. However, this makes changes more noticeable. Following subjects when they're very young is more difficult, as they tend to move a lot more. So most studies now are shifting to a 35-40 lower age range.
In some locations, we have underwater hothouses, due to a lack of arable land (e.g. mountain states and provinces in the West). In other places, there's not a whole heck of a lot of sun, so using the energy from nearby wind and hydro, you can easily run LED to grow plants in seasons where it might not otherwise be viable.
Buildings can be built to grow things. Here at the UW, we have many buildings with green roofs and green walls, and some have entire bioenvelopes.
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It is technically possible for one of two things to occur that would create a mini ice age, even if those pushing this are really anti-science global warming deniers.
1. The Alaska to Northern California subduction zone "jumps", triggering massive tsunamis and setting off nearby earthquake unzipping along the Alaska, BC, Washington, Oregon, and Northern California linked fault lines, which could (but most likely would not) cause some of the active volcanoes near this line (like Mount Hood, Mount Rainier, and so on) to activate in full eruption. The resulting atmospheric emissions would cause a mini ice age similar to that during the last mini ice age (also called the Dark Ages).
2. Yellowstone could erupt. If that happens, you have a lot more to worry about, other than the mini ice age that would certainly occur.
That said, those pushing this are really just anti-science global warming deniers, desperate for continuing government subsidies for their dying fossil fuel industries.
Exactly. We can - and have - changed construction codes so that buildings won't collapse as badly, but anything over an 8.0 will cause 50 percent of all buildings and bridges to collapse and there really is not much you can do about that. Even tsunami risks are mostly about climbing to higher ground or getting on top of the tallest buildings.
Beyond that, while we do have a NOAA alert system now (hosted by the UW as an app for your phone), it's not going to do you much good if half of everything shakes to pieces.
Have a container of water and a whistle in every room. That will be useful, as you can survive a month without food, but only 2-3 days without water.
It's "the next 30 years" as in "economical Fusion power will happen in 30 years /is 30 years away."
Actually, the University of Washington is making real fusion reactors.
Keep up.
technically that only applies to places on the actual coast. Anywhere in the Puget Sound south of Everett has this giant mountain range called the Olympic Mountains protecting it (you know, the place Twilight movies are located).
At most 1-2 blocks next to the water are vulnerable in the actual Puget Sound, and that's from the Seattle fault itself.
1. Keep a container of water and a whistle in each room. You can survive a month without food, but only 2-3 days without water.
2. There is not enough airlift to rescue even 1/20th of the injured. Only children in schools will be rescued. If you are in a Deep Bertha Tunnel, you will die there as the power goes out and the fans and pumps stop working.
3. Don't worry about Tsunami risk if you live in the Puget Sound, south of Everett. Unless you live within a block of the ocean. If so, get on the roof.
4. Half of all buildings and bridges will collapse in anything over an 8.0. Nothing we can do about that. You're safer in buildings built since the 90s.
5. Don't you wish you had a solar panel now? That will keep working, even in cloud cover. Enough for a fridge and microwave.
Just wondering if you think that the vast majority of middle school boys that participate in GamerGate attacks on women gamers are starting this due to perceived peer pressure, or do you think it's a reaction to the hostility towards young women built into movies and certain game types, and is it only because they won't bathe, floss, or brush teeth that they take their anger out on adult gamer women?
Wondering, because neither my son nor I did this, and we've been gamers since middle school, but notice a lot of the GamerGate participants seem to be mostly middle schooler boys.
OK... I'm going to play Devil's advocate here and ask you a couple questions...
Assume they do just as you say. What do you do with those that violate even that copyright term? You see, today things are copied usually the day they are released or in most cases even before they are released. Just how do you stop that? If you really intend to be fair, until you can answer those you are just blowing smoke.
Easy. Dissolve the corporation and use it's assets to pay off the national debt.
Since corporations aren't people, this seems more than fair.
Make the copyright only go to the person in 13 year periods, renewable for their life, and with one extension if they have a spouse or children that survive them.
Only allow corporations to rent part of a 13 year period. Forcing them to renegotiate with the living human for each cycle.
Make it so!
In the Seattle-Bellevue area "average" wage is driven up by a lot of senior execs pretending to be programmers. Median salary for actual starting employees not counting benefits is what matters, and what you get taxed on.
Just because Bill Gates makes $20 billion doesn't make me a millionaire (even if I am).
Nice try, but the cost of living in certain cities is what drives up salaries.
If you live in Spokane WA, you're going to get paid a LOT less than if you live in Seattle WA.
If you live in NYC or San Francisco or San Diego, same thing.
They say things like this to justify sending more H1-B visas to firms like Tata to get cheaper employees while it's the literal cost of living that's actually driving up the prices.
To someone in Podunk, Illinois, they hear this and believe it, but you can hire someone you'd pay $100k for in SF for only $26K there. And salaries done by averages tend to inflate it by adding total compensation - retirement, sick leave, vacations, health insurance, etc. So you won't clear $100k, you'll be lucky to get $60k.
1984 was right, it was just 20 years early, and this is the script they are working off of.
Look, we all know where the terrorists are and who is spreading it, and how to track and follow them. Encryption is no more a threat than a candy bar behind a locked glass case in a supermarket too high for kids to reach is.
The reason they defeat the spies is the spies are too stupid, and ignore the real threats due to the massive overkill of non-relevant data and metadata that obfuscates the actual threats.
They already have access to your phones and already subvert them for target cases, so it's just more justification for insane stuff we don't need.
I see you're new here. Unlike you, I've managed to get many of my ideas put into practice in this state, when others said it couldn't be done. I've also managed to see that something was not going to happen and predict that with a high level of certainty, due to the nature of this state, on a regular basis.
You can waste your time. I'm not going to.
Rail against the dying of the light if you wish, and battle with the tides. I'll be collecting clams on the beach and having a clam bake instead.
Actually, most Business graduates probably took formal Project Management courses, and most CSE graduates probably took formal Project Management courses. PMP is for people who are lacking a degree with courses in the field.
The higher your level of experience and completed education, the less useful certifications become.
If you're just starting out, a certification is useful, especially if it's in an area you have no formal or only limited experience in.
If you have extensive experience and/or advanced completed education (BSc, MSc, PhD) then I wouldn't recommend it.
I for one welcome our hyper-intelligent synchronized-brain rat overlords!
Pinky and the Brain.
It's designed for all the rat brains you need. The architecture assumes that nobody will ever need more than 640 wired rat brains.
Only the Civ Gov side.
So, only one of the five spy agencies you know about.
Is it Microsoft's fault that the US tax system is so fucking broken? No, it's not. Microsoft isn't obligated to "repay" its tax savings. You're a shitty editor and you should feel shitty.
So they don't have lobbyists? ...
Are you sure?
This has no effect on H-1b visas because the money is for K-12 education...
Actually, no, many of them have families and they attend public school here, so it's a valid point.
I'd have said passive-aggressive. But if the shoe fits...
I can see you're not from here. We're all like that.
Or will they remain a colony of Imperial Britannia forever?
Also, do I have to send them birthday presents, cause it's really really expensive to ship there.
Not to downsay that, but the tax rate for tech company stock owners is very very very low here, we don't have a state income tax or a capital gains tax, and they tend to pay 1/3 what most workers pay.
Also, they are rescinding the mandatory K-12 classroom size reduction the voters passed, ignoring it so they can build more roads and tax exempt property access for tech companies.
That said, it's a good move at long last.
Pay attention to what they do, not what they say.
Also, do they have beachfront property, and can we party on them?
In our latest studies on various diseases associated with aging, many are now following younger subjects. The major problem is that annual followups tend not to work as well, since younger people are busy, so you have to go from an annual cycle to an every 2-3 year cycle. However, this makes changes more noticeable. Following subjects when they're very young is more difficult, as they tend to move a lot more. So most studies now are shifting to a 35-40 lower age range.
In some locations, we have underwater hothouses, due to a lack of arable land (e.g. mountain states and provinces in the West). In other places, there's not a whole heck of a lot of sun, so using the energy from nearby wind and hydro, you can easily run LED to grow plants in seasons where it might not otherwise be viable.
Buildings can be built to grow things. Here at the UW, we have many buildings with green roofs and green walls, and some have entire bioenvelopes.