And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
Exactly. It's why my company sets aside some of professional development funds for exercise and wellness, because the healthier the employees are, the less sick leave they take and the more productive they are. In a tight labor market, it also can serve as good marketing to potential employees.
My company provides flu shots every year (paid for by company insurance, but whatever). No idea why flu shots aren't just viewed as national defense.
That page is great, but there are no error bars on that page, either.
Another thing to note: scientists won't tell you what percentage of the warming is caused from AGW, and what percentage is from natural cycles (and if they do, it'll be a vague unsupported number, like "most:" again, presented without error bars).
Doing statistics without error bars is a sign of poorly done statistics.
No error bars (I would check the original papers) but here is the IPCC 2007 breakdown.
The best maple syrup (due to a colder climate...) comes from eastern Canada
No, it comes from Costco, dumbass.
(I know, don't feed the trolls. But can I pour some "pancake syrup" on this one?)
I may have grown up in NH, but I live in Seattle, which is the home of Costco, so I've had ample opportunity to compare them. Perhaps if you got out of your parents' basement, you might have a wider range of experiences to draw upon when commenting. Not to mention a bit more wit.
The best maple syrup (due to a colder climate...) comes from eastern Canada,
I love how people often refer to Ontario and western Quebec as "Eastern Canada". Canada is a vast, vast, country, and Ontario, especially, is much closer to the middle than it is to the eastern side.
Makes about as much sense as calling Kentucky the midwest I suppose. And I've been to most of the Maritimes (although L'anse aux medeaux is still on my bucket list) so I get it. (And yes, I can "read this" too!)
The best maple syrup (due to a colder climate...) comes from eastern Canada, so I'd like to see a similar study done in Ontario and Quebec. This may just be another case of climate change preferentially destroying a US crop. Fortunately, it is produced mostly in blue states, so Real Americans can just keep pouring on that flavourless HFC-based slime.
(BTW, I grew up in NH, so I'm not shilling for the Canadian co-ops...)
Ibuprofen in 600+ on a regular basis will form a habit where you will get headaches unless you keep taking it. The only way out is to switch to something like tylenol and wean yourself off of the ibuprofen. I know someone who was in this habit and the headaches slowly became worse over the years until they were hospitalized because of the pain. Now they don't take any ibuprofen at all, and no headaches.
I have heard of this (I had a Health teacher in the 1970s who had the same problem), but I don't take such doses on a regular basis. I get headaches maybe about once a month, so I don't get hooked. But I also suspect that your anecdote has a lot of individual variation - which is why I gave my weight in my OP.
One is heavily into 80s classic rock and the other is into classical-y music (stuff like Two Cellos and Pentatonix). They are both aware of modern pop music but quite uninterested.
When people say that music used to be better in the old days, that is actually true, it was better in the old days. Music in the old days had more dynamic range. Today it's just loud and flat.
But compression is nothing new. I was a DJ in the early 1980s and I was fascinated whenever a new REO Speedwagon album came out. The only thing they had going for them was they figured out how to use compression. It was eerie to realise that one could date one of their albums by watching how little the VU meter needles moved: The less they moved the more recent the album.
I take 2 200mg pills every day, matter of course, for joint pain (I'm over 50) and at first, I was concerned, but when I read the dosage they were taking, I 'stopped reading there' (as the kids say).
slash is getting so sleazy these days.
the correct headline is: MASSIVE dosage of advil can cause problems. leave out the adjective and the article is a lie.
typical of slash and media these days. accuracy never matters anymore, just clicks. sigh.
It depends on how sensitive you are to the drug. When I broke my collarbone about 30 years ago, they gave me some codeine, which made me throw up. The fallback was to take 100mg of ibuprofen every hour (2400mg/day) for about a week. Ever since then, I've had to take 800mg just to get rid of a headache. I've tried 600mg and it doesn't work (FWIW I weigh about 190# and am pretty active).
So while you may be lucky enough to get by on 400mg/day, not everyone can.
When the population increases in an area, people are always driven to build more housing on the bad land. It's no surprise when 'expensive new housing' is flooded or beset upon by a hurricane. The 'bad land' is the places where there aren't already 100 year old structures.
Not to mention the unscrupulous developers who bribe the local politicians to allow them to put up their overpriced, high risk garbage in these areas and then flee - leaving the buyers holding the bag...
Don't forget about the billions of taxpayer dollars that could have gone to places like Puerto Rico or Houston TX. The homeless poor should get credit for their sacrifices in this endeavor as well.
You may have said that as a joke, but you might not be that far off.
There are processes now using molten-lithium carbonate electrolytic cells to pull the carbon out of the air. The real innovate though is the electrode has nucleation sites that allow for the growing of carbon-nanotube whiskers long enough to be harvested and spun into a carbon fiber with not much more processing (compared to current forms of carbon fiber manufacture). The other component to making useful carbon fiber materials is epoxy resin. Resin is pretty much all organic, read-carbon!
This coupled with cheap PV solar and focused solar heating (for the carbonate cells) we could really be pulling truly significant amounts of carbon from the atmosphere. Not just sequestering, but providing true value-added structural materials (ie market driven!!)
I would love to believe this but...... in order to pull all the carbon out of the atmosphere you would need to have an industrial demand equal to the amount of coal and oil we have burned over the last 250 years. The volume of which is truly staggering.
There was study done by the US Navy or Air Force in the 80's to see what kind of voice would work best for warning fighter pilots of various things. Higher pitched voices cut through cockpit noise and other distractions better than others, so they used women to record the warning signals.
I think the overall theme is that higher pitched voices cut through noise floor better than lower pitched voices.
This was known back in the 1960s. This is why the Star Trek ship's computer had a female voice.
Don't forget about the side effects though. Some of this may not be a problem in the U.K. but increasing the retirement age means making sure older workers can get decent employment. It also means they will not be leaving vacancies as soon, so slower promotions and less entry level jobs opening up for the next generation.
Another side effect is that manual labourers will be forced to further destroy their bodies before they can retire. "Decent employment" for them may actually consist of retirement.
more than 185,000 white and non-white participants
You can't just say "more than 185,000 people"? Why would race be injected into this reporting?
Because in the past a lot of medical research had unreported sampling biases that were assumed to be unimportant at the time, but were later found to have significant consequences. For example, a lot of heart research was conducted only on white men, but it was later found women and black men have different reactions to various drugs.
So the problem is not that race is being "injected" but rather that it has been injected in the recent past. Mentioning it is therefore relevant. They also broke it down by sex, which is a closely related issue.
It was mutated by radiation and almost un-killable. Note that MIR was de-orbited and not all pieces burned up completely.
Yes, that's right, somewhere in the world, there might exist a colony of mutant space fungus that the Russians tried and failed to kill.
I just finished Geoffrey Landis' Mars Crossing in which the first American mission to Mars was taken out by athlete's foot. I thought it was a bit too tongue in cheek but now I'm worried.
OK, I'll try to sum up what beer and yeast is. Yeast evolved over a long time by actually loosing the ability to turn alcohol into vinegar. Many microorganisms can digest sugars into alcohol and then vinegar in one fell swoop. When yeast lost that, it was actually an evolutionary advantage because alcohol is toxic, so by itself evolving to resist the toxicity of alcohol, it could kill of the competition (all the other microorganisms present in rotting fruits) and live happily. Men used that ability to make beer, wine, etc... Wild yeast dies off after something like 8% alcohol, but humans have been selecting it for 10ky so it resists 12% (and now up to 15% in some strong wines).
Not only that, but humans have been evolving to tolerate ethyl alcohol for about 10My:
The results suggested there was a single genetic mutation 10 million years ago that endowed human ancestors with an enhanced ability to break down ethanol. "I remember seeing this huge difference in effects with this mutation and being really surprised," Carrigan said.
Not to mention the obvious survivor bias. Pets taken in to the vet are much more likely to be ill in some manner. Especially since most people are even less likely to go to the vet than a human doctor (no insurance).
No way. That animal weighs about 250 kg, and will easily provide 125 kg of edible meat, at about 3000 kcal/kg. I'm guessing the 8 hour run would cost somewhere between 3000 and 6000 kcal, depending on how fast he was going.
You assume that a sole hunter would hunt one animal for himself only. This assumption is false and an animal as large as you describe would give a sole hunter the finger. You also assume that the hunter would be able to find and kill a large animal every day, which is even more ridiculous.
The typical size of a hunting party is 3-4 men. So at 125*3000 ~ 375.000 kcal/kg per carcass out of which the hunters would consume 9000kcal/kg to recoup the 8 hour run there is plenty left over for the rest of their group. The average size of a hunter gatherer band can range between ~12 to 50 individuals. If we assume a meat consumption of one kilo of meat per day for each individual in a group of 30 hunter gatherers, one carcass like that would last them for four days. However, a group of 30 would easily be able to field two hunter teams of 3-4 men each (or women, since women hunted in some of these societies) with, one group hunting and one either preparing for a hunt, or inbound with a carcass. At the same time these 6-8 people are out hunting the rest of the group would be out gathering fruits, vegetables, seeds roots herbs to supplement the diet and easily matching the contribution of the hunters while others are making equipment, clothing shelters etc... in short religionofpeas numbers seem perfectly plausible to me, especially since hunter gatherers ate every scrap of the animal down to the offal and the marrow in the bones and then used inedible parts including bones to make arrowheads, harpoons spear heads, knives and sinew to make rope, thread and as a component in bow making. Leather of course would not have been wasted either nor would horn or the wool of the animal if any. Many apex predators leave that stuff behind, a large animal killed by humans was likely to completely disappear simply because every bit of it's carcass was used up for some purpose.
A small comment about everyone's assumptions: It seems that most hunter-gatherers consume far more of the animal than muscle tissue. Which just means that hunting is even more efficient than the numbers you give.
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How do you know Jesus was male? Did someone see his dick? I don't recall that part of the bible.....
And lo, did Jesus uncoil his serpent of manhood, and those near to him turned away from its majesty.[17]
Well, it's mentioned in Luke that he was circumcised...
And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
Exactly. It's why my company sets aside some of professional development funds for exercise and wellness, because the healthier the employees are, the less sick leave they take and the more productive they are. In a tight labor market, it also can serve as good marketing to potential employees.
My company provides flu shots every year (paid for by company insurance, but whatever). No idea why flu shots aren't just viewed as national defense.
Nope, they were distracted by the Kaiju.
Well played ;-)
That page is great, but there are no error bars on that page, either.
Another thing to note: scientists won't tell you what percentage of the warming is caused from AGW, and what percentage is from natural cycles (and if they do, it'll be a vague unsupported number, like "most:" again, presented without error bars).
Doing statistics without error bars is a sign of poorly done statistics.
No error bars (I would check the original papers) but here is the IPCC 2007 breakdown.
No, it comes from Costco, dumbass.
(I know, don't feed the trolls. But can I pour some "pancake syrup" on this one?)
I may have grown up in NH, but I live in Seattle, which is the home of Costco, so I've had ample opportunity to compare them. Perhaps if you got out of your parents' basement, you might have a wider range of experiences to draw upon when commenting. Not to mention a bit more wit.
The best maple syrup (due to a colder climate...) comes from eastern Canada,
I love how people often refer to Ontario and western Quebec as "Eastern Canada". Canada is a vast, vast, country, and Ontario, especially, is much closer to the middle than it is to the eastern side.
Makes about as much sense as calling Kentucky the midwest I suppose. And I've been to most of the Maritimes (although L'anse aux medeaux is still on my bucket list) so I get it. (And yes, I can "read this" too!)
The best maple syrup (due to a colder climate...) comes from eastern Canada, so I'd like to see a similar study done in Ontario and Quebec. This may just be another case of climate change preferentially destroying a US crop. Fortunately, it is produced mostly in blue states, so Real Americans can just keep pouring on that flavourless HFC-based slime.
(BTW, I grew up in NH, so I'm not shilling for the Canadian co-ops...)
Ibuprofen in 600+ on a regular basis will form a habit where you will get headaches unless you keep taking it. The only way out is to switch to something like tylenol and wean yourself off of the ibuprofen. I know someone who was in this habit and the headaches slowly became worse over the years until they were hospitalized because of the pain. Now they don't take any ibuprofen at all, and no headaches.
I have heard of this (I had a Health teacher in the 1970s who had the same problem), but I don't take such doses on a regular basis. I get headaches maybe about once a month, so I don't get hooked. But I also suspect that your anecdote has a lot of individual variation - which is why I gave my weight in my OP.
One is heavily into 80s classic rock and the other is into classical-y music (stuff like Two Cellos and Pentatonix). They are both aware of modern pop music but quite uninterested.
No the problem is compression or the loudness war:
https://www.cnet.com/news/comp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
When people say that music used to be better in the old days, that is actually true, it was better in the old days. Music in the old days had more dynamic range. Today it's just loud and flat.
But compression is nothing new. I was a DJ in the early 1980s and I was fascinated whenever a new REO Speedwagon album came out. The only thing they had going for them was they figured out how to use compression. It was eerie to realise that one could date one of their albums by watching how little the VU meter needles moved: The less they moved the more recent the album.
look, 1200mg is VERY high dosage!
I take 2 200mg pills every day, matter of course, for joint pain (I'm over 50) and at first, I was concerned, but when I read the dosage they were taking, I 'stopped reading there' (as the kids say).
slash is getting so sleazy these days.
the correct headline is: MASSIVE dosage of advil can cause problems. leave out the adjective and the article is a lie.
typical of slash and media these days. accuracy never matters anymore, just clicks. sigh.
It depends on how sensitive you are to the drug. When I broke my collarbone about 30 years ago, they gave me some codeine, which made me throw up. The fallback was to take 100mg of ibuprofen every hour (2400mg/day) for about a week. Ever since then, I've had to take 800mg just to get rid of a headache. I've tried 600mg and it doesn't work (FWIW I weigh about 190# and am pretty active).
So while you may be lucky enough to get by on 400mg/day, not everyone can.
alien probes all the way down?
And now I can't scrub that image out of my brain...
When the population increases in an area, people are always driven to build more housing on the bad land. It's no surprise when 'expensive new housing' is flooded or beset upon by a hurricane. The 'bad land' is the places where there aren't already 100 year old structures.
Not to mention the unscrupulous developers who bribe the local politicians to allow them to put up their overpriced, high risk garbage in these areas and then flee - leaving the buyers holding the bag...
Don't forget about the billions of taxpayer dollars that could have gone to places like Puerto Rico or Houston TX. The homeless poor should get credit for their sacrifices in this endeavor as well.
As opposed to the 50% of the discretionary budget that goes to fund a military that consumes over 1/3 of world military spending?
You may have said that as a joke, but you might not be that far off.
There are processes now using molten-lithium carbonate electrolytic cells to pull the carbon out of the air. The real innovate though is the electrode has nucleation sites that allow for the growing of carbon-nanotube whiskers long enough to be harvested and spun into a carbon fiber with not much more processing (compared to current forms of carbon fiber manufacture). The other component to making useful carbon fiber materials is epoxy resin. Resin is pretty much all organic, read-carbon!
This coupled with cheap PV solar and focused solar heating (for the carbonate cells) we could really be pulling truly significant amounts of carbon from the atmosphere. Not just sequestering, but providing true value-added structural materials (ie market driven!!)
I would love to believe this but... ... in order to pull all the carbon out of the atmosphere you would need to have an industrial demand equal to the amount of coal and oil we have burned over the last 250 years. The volume of which is truly staggering.
365.242 for a solar year, but 365.25 for calendar years including leap years.
The GP is being pedantic, but I used it to take your post as a bit of hyperbole - 8 days a week if you will!
There was study done by the US Navy or Air Force in the 80's to see what kind of voice would work best for warning fighter pilots of various things. Higher pitched voices cut through cockpit noise and other distractions better than others, so they used women to record the warning signals.
I think the overall theme is that higher pitched voices cut through noise floor better than lower pitched voices.
This was known back in the 1960s. This is why the Star Trek ship's computer had a female voice.
Don't forget about the side effects though. Some of this may not be a problem in the U.K. but increasing the retirement age means making sure older workers can get decent employment. It also means they will not be leaving vacancies as soon, so slower promotions and less entry level jobs opening up for the next generation.
Another side effect is that manual labourers will be forced to further destroy their bodies before they can retire. "Decent employment" for them may actually consist of retirement.
The 5 hottest years on record have all been since 2010. 11 of the 12 hottest years have been since 2000.
Only if you accept adjusted temperature readings..
That would explain why some skeptics at Berkeley didn't accept them, made their own measurements and got the same results.
You can't just say "more than 185,000 people"? Why would race be injected into this reporting?
Because in the past a lot of medical research had unreported sampling biases that were assumed to be unimportant at the time, but were later found to have significant consequences. For example, a lot of heart research was conducted only on white men, but it was later found women and black men have different reactions to various drugs.
So the problem is not that race is being "injected" but rather that it has been injected in the recent past. Mentioning it is therefore relevant. They also broke it down by sex, which is a closely related issue.
The Russian station, MIR, was almost over-run by fungus. http://rense.com/general8/mir....
It was mutated by radiation and almost un-killable. Note that MIR was de-orbited and not all pieces burned up completely.
Yes, that's right, somewhere in the world, there might exist a colony of mutant space fungus that the Russians tried and failed to kill.
I just finished Geoffrey Landis' Mars Crossing in which the first American mission to Mars was taken out by athlete's foot. I thought it was a bit too tongue in cheek but now I'm worried.
OK, I'll try to sum up what beer and yeast is. Yeast evolved over a long time by actually loosing the ability to turn alcohol into vinegar. Many microorganisms can digest sugars into alcohol and then vinegar in one fell swoop. When yeast lost that, it was actually an evolutionary advantage because alcohol is toxic, so by itself evolving to resist the toxicity of alcohol, it could kill of the competition (all the other microorganisms present in rotting fruits) and live happily. Men used that ability to make beer, wine, etc... Wild yeast dies off after something like 8% alcohol, but humans have been selecting it for 10ky so it resists 12% (and now up to 15% in some strong wines).
Not only that, but humans have been evolving to tolerate ethyl alcohol for about 10My:
The results suggested there was a single genetic mutation 10 million years ago that endowed human ancestors with an enhanced ability to break down ethanol. "I remember seeing this huge difference in effects with this mutation and being really surprised," Carrigan said.
It was Bill Clinton, A FUCKING DEMOCRAT that federally deregulated the banks and federally instituted the racist 3-strikes law.
We were told that this sort of stuff would have been a Republican wet dream. THE DEMOCRATS DID IT
And the Dems wonder why they can't win elections.
Stuff that matters alright!
Not to mention the obvious survivor bias. Pets taken in to the vet are much more likely to be ill in some manner. Especially since most people are even less likely to go to the vet than a human doctor (no insurance).
You assume that a sole hunter would hunt one animal for himself only. This assumption is false and an animal as large as you describe would give a sole hunter the finger. You also assume that the hunter would be able to find and kill a large animal every day, which is even more ridiculous.
The typical size of a hunting party is 3-4 men. So at 125*3000 ~ 375.000 kcal/kg per carcass out of which the hunters would consume 9000kcal/kg to recoup the 8 hour run there is plenty left over for the rest of their group. The average size of a hunter gatherer band can range between ~12 to 50 individuals. If we assume a meat consumption of one kilo of meat per day for each individual in a group of 30 hunter gatherers, one carcass like that would last them for four days. However, a group of 30 would easily be able to field two hunter teams of 3-4 men each (or women, since women hunted in some of these societies) with, one group hunting and one either preparing for a hunt, or inbound with a carcass. At the same time these 6-8 people are out hunting the rest of the group would be out gathering fruits, vegetables, seeds roots herbs to supplement the diet and easily matching the contribution of the hunters while others are making equipment, clothing shelters etc... in short religionofpeas numbers seem perfectly plausible to me, especially since hunter gatherers ate every scrap of the animal down to the offal and the marrow in the bones and then used inedible parts including bones to make arrowheads, harpoons spear heads, knives and sinew to make rope, thread and as a component in bow making. Leather of course would not have been wasted either nor would horn or the wool of the animal if any. Many apex predators leave that stuff behind, a large animal killed by humans was likely to completely disappear simply because every bit of it's carcass was used up for some purpose.
A small comment about everyone's assumptions: It seems that most hunter-gatherers consume far more of the animal than muscle tissue. Which just means that hunting is even more efficient than the numbers you give.