It's a bit like playing football with 12 men vs 11. Sure it'll help you win, but would you have the same sense of achievement? Ultimately, you're cheating yourself.
... yet. The reason there's been 'only' 275 cases so far is that humans are catching it direct from birds. If (some say it's when) it mutates to the extent that human to human transmission occurs, it's an entirely different matter.
Aren't disaster contingency plans, by definition, speculative? And of course, if anything happens and they aren't prepared, it'll be the same people whining that they didn't consider the possibility in advance.
Marvellous. So instead of getting deafened by all the idiots shouting (why do they do that? Is it because it's long distance?), I'm going to get elbowed in the face by them waving their hands around.
I never said you did. I was clarifying/qualifying what was to come after, unlike most people here who think US law applies everywhere.
You do understand that the "presumed guilty until proven innocent" Salem witch hunters were British, don't you?
I know that they weren't civil cases, which is what you originally referred to having "presumption of liability" - a long way from presumption of guilt in criminal ones. I know that it's so long ago it's pretty irrelevant to the topic under discussion (whatever it was). And I'm 50% sure James Randi wasn't born then.
But when you understand advanced thermodynamics, you realise that making ice isn't a very efficient method for doing so.
P.S. the post is misleading, as they aren't using ice as an energy store at all, they're just moving consumption patterns around. But thanks for playing.
Air conditioning is seldomly used there, as temperatures rarely rise over 30 degC, so the peak consumption is in winter mornings and afternoons/evenings.
So nobody in the Netherlands uses power tools or electrical machinery (including them there typewriter-TV doohickies) at work, or rides electric trains/trams to get there and back?
While I agree that the climate is pretty dire there, there's more to power consumption than air-conditioning - which you seem to have an obsession with.
Unless you consider Robinson Crusoe's island as a nation. But even then, if he'd called the albatrosses bastards, they'd probably have shat on his head. And quite right too.
there are many places with legal systems based on British common law that still hold to a presumption of liability in civil cases.
What are you on about? I've never heard of such a thing. In the UK at least, it's on "balance of probabilites" - less than the "beyond reasonable doubt" in criminal cases, but far from a presumption of liability.
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It's a bit like playing football with 12 men vs 11. Sure it'll help you win, but would you have the same sense of achievement? Ultimately, you're cheating yourself.
# The world's a big blue marble when you see it from up there... #
... yet. The reason there's been 'only' 275 cases so far is that humans are catching it direct from birds. If (some say it's when) it mutates to the extent that human to human transmission occurs, it's an entirely different matter.
Aren't disaster contingency plans, by definition, speculative? And of course, if anything happens and they aren't prepared, it'll be the same people whining that they didn't consider the possibility in advance.
Marvellous. So instead of getting deafened by all the idiots shouting (why do they do that? Is it because it's long distance?), I'm going to get elbowed in the face by them waving their hands around.
Yes you do, if it's to prevent them doing it even more. Nazi Germany was working on an A-Bomb, but I'm sure it was just for research purposes.
P.S. the post is misleading, as they aren't using ice as an energy store at all, they're just moving consumption patterns around. But thanks for playing.
But what's new? I remember ads for this from when I was knee high to a whippersnapper.
While I agree that the climate is pretty dire there, there's more to power consumption than air-conditioning - which you seem to have an obsession with.
Unless you consider Robinson Crusoe's island as a nation. But even then, if he'd called the albatrosses bastards, they'd probably have shat on his head. And quite right too.
And noen of them were Scotsmen either.
I disagree. I think genetic patents are software patents.
You're right. There's no way they'll be able to trace the shills, companies wanting to do this will just do it via multiple intermediaries.
Free speech doesn't inmply immunity from any consequences of what you say.
But... you could also be at home, one block away from the scene, alone, reading a book.
Hence you shouldn't have to prove your innocence.