1. If any of these affiliates were blindsided, it is because they didn't read the notice they were given last week. Of course, a single week's notice is too short anyway...
2. Time for the referral businesses in NC to relocate. Or close up shop. We'd be happy to have them (and their income & property tax revenues) here in NJ.
Of course, now it's only a matter of time before most states have similar laws. Then it'll be time for these businesses to relocate to the Cayman Islands.
Something about being generally savvy makes it harder for ideas like labor unions and collectivism to take root.
And something about lack of in-depth analytical ability makes it harder for ideas like effective government action to take root:)
For all the morons on both sides of the aisle, I just have to say that libtards and conservidiots share a lot of the same traits. But I think libtards are a little more likely to think critically than the conservidiots who parrot what they've seen on Fox -- unfortunately, their lack of good,/i> critical thinking skills sometimes leads to very stupid^Wamusing positions.
You know what the interesting thing about all your example species are? They are all slow-growing and thus practically useless for carbon sequestration, especially when looking at carbon sequestration potential per unit area.
Far better to focus on fast-growing trees that can be harvested and replanted periodically... and then either (1) sequester the timber or (2) use it for practical purposes.
And one other thing... even if the species you mentioned were comparatively decent for carbon sequestration, the very long life of these species means that the opportunity cost of using them for sequestration is even higher.
Your list of old trees is a red herring. Species practical for sequestration grow much faster and have much shorter lifespans.
How quickly are we going to change the 02 concentration in our atmosphere by fucking with this?
Probably no quicker than we've fucked with O2 concentrations already. All that O bound up in CO2 originally came from the atmosphere in the first place... we used it when burning the fossil fuels. So we'd just be putting it back where it came from:)
What's stopping them from designing an artificial tree that uses photosynthesis to convert CO2 into C + O2
If they could do that within a reasonable budget, we'd be using it for a direct power source instead[1], and we wouldn't need to worry about CO2 emissions anymore. The energy required to crack CO2 is much higher than the energy required to liquify it. And the catalysts involved are very expensive (for all the processes studied to date that I've read about).
[1] Why burn fossil fuels and then use collected solar energy to crack the CO2? Why not just use the collected solar to produce electricity? If solar energy collection were efficient enough to crack CO2 as an effective method of reducing atmospheric CO2, we'd be better of skipping the fossil fuel/CO2 intermediary.
However, just to capture CO2 and liquify it, seems like a waste of time. I'd rather see them cut CO2 emissions by 800 tons/day per 20 cars.
That's the great thing. It's not an either/or situation. We can (and need to use) many methods to reduce atmospheric CO2. An important part is reducing emissions, as you point out. Another important part is remediating emissions, via sequestration or otherwise. The more angles of attack we have, the more likely we are to reduce CO2 to manageable levels.
My wife tells me that most people are living in a world where all sorts of neat stuff happens magically, and when it stops happening the only real solution is to call some company (or, if they're lucky, a sufficiently tech-savvy friend) that can make that magic start working again.
This is fairly disturbing.
Why is this disturbing? It'd be a huge waste of resources if everyone were to have in-depth knowledge of the technology that is in daily use. Division of labor and specialization are extremely important to robust economies and development of new technology. When you want ice cream, do you need to know how the sunlight + water + minerals --> ice cream process works? Do you need to know the details of the last step? Earlier steps? Or do you just need to know where you can acquire some?
For that matter, if we all needed to understand the technology we use daily, do you think we'd have time left over for new developments? Do you think philosophical and scientific advancement would be possible if we were all required to be able to grow our own food / make our own clothes / build our own houses / etc?
Division of labor and specialization of labor has given us so much in terms of technology and culture... I'd really hate to see a system where the common person would *need* to know how to fix their gadgets. Then we'd lose a lot of their potential contributions in other areas.
They don't transform the "bad" CO2 into "good" O2 and H2O, they simply capture it and store it.
Nothing can turn "bad" CO2 into "good" O2 and H2O.
I don't know much about this "artificial tree" FTA, but what I do know is that natural trees also simply capture and store carbon. Yes, they let off O2 and H2O as part of the process, but sequestration occurs with both these artificial trees and with natural trees.
And either way, you still have the problem of long-term storage. Dead trees release their carbon back into the atmosphere... and what's worse from a GW perspective is that a good portion of the C is released as CH4 if the decomposition happens underground or underwater, and CH4 is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 (even if its atmospheric half-life is shorter).
Real trees transform CO2 into organics... BFD. The keys are (1) the rate of sequestration and (2) the duration of sequestration.
I'm not going to get into the specifics of pumping liquid CO2 deep underground, as I'm nowhere near an expert on the subject, and there is tons of material online about it. But I will say, quite emphatically, that we need to examine each and every possibility for reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, or billions will suffer.
I was going to craft a well-thought out response regarding the difference between an ideal free market and Free Market Idealism, and point out that governments can be actors in a free market, and then I was going to dig up links to a couple of very successful municipal broadband projects.
But then I thought to myself, "Looks like high schools have let out for the summer".
I think it's time for a hiatus for me for a while...
My impression is that India's massive underclass keeps the cost of living down, which allows the next higher class to also live cheaply.
There's also the fact that the lower classes can be employed by more well-to-do Indians as household servants.
I've considered relocating to India, and still might at some point (once my kids are out of school). Because all the positives of living in the US barely add up to the positives of being able to afford a villa, and a cook, a maid, a laundress, and an errand boy on a salary of US$75k a year.
Of the two workers, the local is likely to spend more domestically, will pay more taxes over his or her career, may serve on a jury, is many times more likely to do volunteer work, and is infinitely more likely to defend the nation in times of crisis.
That one statement struck me... in my experience, Indian employees in the US spend far more time doing community-service activities than their American coworkers. Far, far more time.
As for the rest of your claims, they fit my observations.
The only thing I'd like to add is that if we replace the guest worker programs with naturalization, then we'd solve most of those issues.
It's ironic that in a comment on a story about the joy of pattern-making and pattern-recognition, you should reveal the ugliness of pattern-enforcement. Don't, for the love of humanity, be a lexer (of any languages but those that need it), and don't go around insisting others think like machines.
I never did... so as long as you don't go around ascribing motivations and actions that don't exist to people whose posts you have read, I don't think we'll have a problem.
Seriously... what bug crawled up your ass this morning?
I don't have any money, but I am glad to provide a proxy or whatever if anyone is so crazed that they will attack people across international lines just to silence their speech. I don't have family and I'm not afraid of whatever they think they can do. Such people are scum and not worth fearing.
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If this is your course of action, might I suggest changing your nick to "TinyElusiveTarget"?
Seriously, though, previous threads over the past couple days have had a lot of details on what to do and how to do it if you want to help. Alternatively, Fark.com has daily (or more frequent) threads on the Green Revolution, and there are always helpful posts in those threads.
If you like math, and more so if you think you don't like math, I implore you with every atom of my being to read his essay.
I understood what he was trying to say, but observed that there was potential for confusion based upon his word order.
Being that I'm a bit of a grammar nazi when I feel like it, and that it is Friday, and that we all need a quiet chuckle on Fridays, I decided to try my hand a crafting a somewhat amusing joke based upon the lack of clarity in the summary.
Bah, like we're going to RTFA on a Friday when there are much better, lower-hanging, fruit to pick.
For example (FTS):
If you like math, and more so if you think you don't like math, I implore you to read his essay with every atom of my being.
And just how, pray tell, are we supposed to read his essay with every atom of your being?
I mean sure, I could read his essay with every atom of my being, but wouldn't it violate some mathematical and physical principles for me to read it with the submitter's being?
Genesis doesn't count. Any band that replaces Peter Gabriel with Phil Collins as lead singer deserves to be relegated to obscurity, and I'm not sure it has anything to do with the loss of Collins as a drummer. Or maybe I just don't like Phil Collins, no matter how catchy his pop hooks are.
But here is one big example: King Crimson. They just weren't the same when Giles left and Buford came in... no matter how good Buford was with Yes.
BTW, I'm not a drummer. And I don't really think that the drummer is the leader of every band. But I thought it'd make a good joke, so I admit made it up. There. Happy now?;)
Dude, you're bitching about the fact we haven't encountered Martians yet, but you're speaking their fucking language.
Gorblobberschnart, man, relax... the martians are there, "they" just don't want us to know about them. ("They" meaning various 3- and 4-letter government agencies).
I have to go for a walk, air out my mind a little. This is some serious shit going on right here.
Not to worry, comrade, there's a simple explanation for this.
Slashdot has an automated dupe detector (seriously! have you noticed the reduction in dupes?)
When the dupe detector flags a potential dupe, the editor has a couple of choices. Let the dupe through, for some perverse reason. Block the dupe. Or decide that the new article is sufficiently different that instead, they pre-emptively link to the dupe in the summary, so as to head off the "FP Dupedupedupitydupe" posts.
So no worries, mate, it's not that an editor "TOOK IT UPON THEMSELVES TO DIG AROUND BEFORE POSTING AND SERIOUSLY LINK TO PERTINENT EARLIER COVERAGE!!". It's just that an editor noticed that the system caught a dupe, and added in the link in order to save himself the effort of modding down all the "It's a dupe!!111one!!!" posts.
So you can rest assured that all is right in the world, and the sun will come up tomorrow, and slashdot editors will still be slashdot editors.
I agree, Dr. Who is probably not the best analogy for the model they are describing.
Instead we should consider that the project leaders are like the drummers in the band, they set the rhythm and tempo at which the project moves.
Most bands have only one drummer through the life of the band, because the drummer's style defines the band so much. If that drummer leaves the band, or spontaneously combusts, the band often drifts into obscurity. This is much like many OS projects. There are exceptions, of course.
The most obvious exception in the world of bands is Spinal Tap. So I think we should call this the "Spinal Tap" model, rather than the "Dr. Who" model.
Plus, you get dancing dwarfs on miniature stonehenges, and versions that go up to eleven.
Their payroll system doesn't need a 40-million-dollar fix. That's just what they've ended up spending on it (hypothetically, once the $12 MM hot cash injection fixes all the problems).
The University should just scrap the system and go with a commercial payroll vendor. Bigger organizations have done the same, and there's no shame in it.
$40 MM is insane. That's over four years of tuition for 4500 students at UW-Madison.
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1. If any of these affiliates were blindsided, it is because they didn't read the notice they were given last week. Of course, a single week's notice is too short anyway...
2. Time for the referral businesses in NC to relocate. Or close up shop. We'd be happy to have them (and their income & property tax revenues) here in NJ.
Of course, now it's only a matter of time before most states have similar laws. Then it'll be time for these businesses to relocate to the Cayman Islands.
And something about lack of in-depth analytical ability makes it harder for ideas like effective government action to take root :)
For all the morons on both sides of the aisle, I just have to say that libtards and conservidiots share a lot of the same traits. But I think libtards are a little more likely to think critically than the conservidiots who parrot what they've seen on Fox -- unfortunately, their lack of good,/i> critical thinking skills sometimes leads to very stupid^Wamusing positions.
I highly doubt Mussolini said "good morning" to people in the morning.
"Buon giorno", maybe, but definitely not "good morning".
But you know who did like to say "good morning"?
Hitler. He was often heard to say "Good Morning" or "Cheerio" instead of the German "Guten tag" or "Gruss gott".
*Diese Stelle darf nicht für die Wahrheit.
You know what the interesting thing about all your example species are? They are all slow-growing and thus practically useless for carbon sequestration, especially when looking at carbon sequestration potential per unit area.
Far better to focus on fast-growing trees that can be harvested and replanted periodically... and then either (1) sequester the timber or (2) use it for practical purposes.
And one other thing... even if the species you mentioned were comparatively decent for carbon sequestration, the very long life of these species means that the opportunity cost of using them for sequestration is even higher.
Your list of old trees is a red herring. Species practical for sequestration grow much faster and have much shorter lifespans.
Probably no quicker than we've fucked with O2 concentrations already. All that O bound up in CO2 originally came from the atmosphere in the first place... we used it when burning the fossil fuels. So we'd just be putting it back where it came from :)
If they could do that within a reasonable budget, we'd be using it for a direct power source instead[1], and we wouldn't need to worry about CO2 emissions anymore. The energy required to crack CO2 is much higher than the energy required to liquify it. And the catalysts involved are very expensive (for all the processes studied to date that I've read about).
[1] Why burn fossil fuels and then use collected solar energy to crack the CO2? Why not just use the collected solar to produce electricity? If solar energy collection were efficient enough to crack CO2 as an effective method of reducing atmospheric CO2, we'd be better of skipping the fossil fuel/CO2 intermediary.
That's the great thing. It's not an either/or situation. We can (and need to use) many methods to reduce atmospheric CO2. An important part is reducing emissions, as you point out. Another important part is remediating emissions, via sequestration or otherwise. The more angles of attack we have, the more likely we are to reduce CO2 to manageable levels.
Why is this disturbing? It'd be a huge waste of resources if everyone were to have in-depth knowledge of the technology that is in daily use. Division of labor and specialization are extremely important to robust economies and development of new technology. When you want ice cream, do you need to know how the sunlight + water + minerals --> ice cream process works? Do you need to know the details of the last step? Earlier steps? Or do you just need to know where you can acquire some?
For that matter, if we all needed to understand the technology we use daily, do you think we'd have time left over for new developments? Do you think philosophical and scientific advancement would be possible if we were all required to be able to grow our own food / make our own clothes / build our own houses / etc?
Division of labor and specialization of labor has given us so much in terms of technology and culture... I'd really hate to see a system where the common person would *need* to know how to fix their gadgets. Then we'd lose a lot of their potential contributions in other areas.
I saw a live-action documentary about tinfoil-hatted houses on Broadway...
I think it was called "LOLCat on a Hot Tin Roof" or something. Google it.
Nothing can turn "bad" CO2 into "good" O2 and H2O.
I don't know much about this "artificial tree" FTA, but what I do know is that natural trees also simply capture and store carbon. Yes, they let off O2 and H2O as part of the process, but sequestration occurs with both these artificial trees and with natural trees.
And either way, you still have the problem of long-term storage. Dead trees release their carbon back into the atmosphere... and what's worse from a GW perspective is that a good portion of the C is released as CH4 if the decomposition happens underground or underwater, and CH4 is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 (even if its atmospheric half-life is shorter).
Real trees transform CO2 into organics... BFD. The keys are (1) the rate of sequestration and (2) the duration of sequestration.
I'm not going to get into the specifics of pumping liquid CO2 deep underground, as I'm nowhere near an expert on the subject, and there is tons of material online about it. But I will say, quite emphatically, that we need to examine each and every possibility for reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, or billions will suffer.
I was going to craft a well-thought out response regarding the difference between an ideal free market and Free Market Idealism, and point out that governments can be actors in a free market, and then I was going to dig up links to a couple of very successful municipal broadband projects.
But then I thought to myself, "Looks like high schools have let out for the summer".
I think it's time for a hiatus for me for a while...
There's also the fact that the lower classes can be employed by more well-to-do Indians as household servants.
I've considered relocating to India, and still might at some point (once my kids are out of school). Because all the positives of living in the US barely add up to the positives of being able to afford a villa, and a cook, a maid, a laundress, and an errand boy on a salary of US$75k a year.
That one statement struck me... in my experience, Indian employees in the US spend far more time doing community-service activities than their American coworkers. Far, far more time.
As for the rest of your claims, they fit my observations.
The only thing I'd like to add is that if we replace the guest worker programs with naturalization, then we'd solve most of those issues.
When Collins became lead singer, he drummed only during some of the longer instrumental solos... the primary drummer was someone else at that point.
I never did... so as long as you don't go around ascribing motivations and actions that don't exist to people whose posts you have read, I don't think we'll have a problem.
Seriously... what bug crawled up your ass this morning?
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If this is your course of action, might I suggest changing your nick to "TinyElusiveTarget"?
Seriously, though, previous threads over the past couple days have had a lot of details on what to do and how to do it if you want to help. Alternatively, Fark.com has daily (or more frequent) threads on the Green Revolution, and there are always helpful posts in those threads.
I understood what he was trying to say, but observed that there was potential for confusion based upon his word order.
Being that I'm a bit of a grammar nazi when I feel like it, and that it is Friday, and that we all need a quiet chuckle on Fridays, I decided to try my hand a crafting a somewhat amusing joke based upon the lack of clarity in the summary.
Does that make you feel better?
Why not have the area code be 600 and start all numbers with 6?
That'd be much more amusing and transparent that 4664 (agga?)
For example (FTS):
And just how, pray tell, are we supposed to read his essay with every atom of your being?
I mean sure, I could read his essay with every atom of my being, but wouldn't it violate some mathematical and physical principles for me to read it with the submitter's being?
Genesis doesn't count. Any band that replaces Peter Gabriel with Phil Collins as lead singer deserves to be relegated to obscurity, and I'm not sure it has anything to do with the loss of Collins as a drummer. Or maybe I just don't like Phil Collins, no matter how catchy his pop hooks are.
;)
But here is one big example: King Crimson. They just weren't the same when Giles left and Buford came in... no matter how good Buford was with Yes.
BTW, I'm not a drummer. And I don't really think that the drummer is the leader of every band. But I thought it'd make a good joke, so I admit made it up. There. Happy now?
Dude, you're bitching about the fact we haven't encountered Martians yet, but you're speaking their fucking language.
Gorblobberschnart, man, relax... the martians are there, "they" just don't want us to know about them. ("They" meaning various 3- and 4-letter government agencies).
Not to worry, comrade, there's a simple explanation for this.
Slashdot has an automated dupe detector (seriously! have you noticed the reduction in dupes?)
When the dupe detector flags a potential dupe, the editor has a couple of choices. Let the dupe through, for some perverse reason. Block the dupe. Or decide that the new article is sufficiently different that instead, they pre-emptively link to the dupe in the summary, so as to head off the "FP Dupedupedupitydupe" posts.
So no worries, mate, it's not that an editor "TOOK IT UPON THEMSELVES TO DIG AROUND BEFORE POSTING AND SERIOUSLY LINK TO PERTINENT EARLIER COVERAGE!!". It's just that an editor noticed that the system caught a dupe, and added in the link in order to save himself the effort of modding down all the "It's a dupe!!111one!!!" posts.
So you can rest assured that all is right in the world, and the sun will come up tomorrow, and slashdot editors will still be slashdot editors.
I agree, Dr. Who is probably not the best analogy for the model they are describing.
Instead we should consider that the project leaders are like the drummers in the band, they set the rhythm and tempo at which the project moves.
Most bands have only one drummer through the life of the band, because the drummer's style defines the band so much. If that drummer leaves the band, or spontaneously combusts, the band often drifts into obscurity. This is much like many OS projects. There are exceptions, of course.
The most obvious exception in the world of bands is Spinal Tap. So I think we should call this the "Spinal Tap" model, rather than the "Dr. Who" model.
Plus, you get dancing dwarfs on miniature stonehenges, and versions that go up to eleven.
PeopleSoft is not a commercial payroll vendor.
It is an ERP system, the payroll module needs to be heavily customized for any large implementation.
If they need an ERP, fine... but then it's not just a payroll system costing $12 MM additional, is it?
Serves me right for NRTFA, but *some* accuracy could *maybe* be hoped for?
Who am I kidding, right?
Their payroll system doesn't need a 40-million-dollar fix. That's just what they've ended up spending on it (hypothetically, once the $12 MM hot cash injection fixes all the problems).
The University should just scrap the system and go with a commercial payroll vendor. Bigger organizations have done the same, and there's no shame in it.
$40 MM is insane. That's over four years of tuition for 4500 students at UW-Madison.
No use throwing good money after bad.
Yeah, well, this case has nothing to do with the eighth amendment.
This is a civil matter, not a criminal one.