You've got to take it on a species-by-species basis. Take, for example, Sequoia Sempervirens. Right up until the trees fall down because they outgrow their root systems, older trees put on more mass and thus fix more CO2 than the same area filled to capacity with younger trees.
Then they die, and decompose, releasing nearly all that CO2 back into the atmosphere.
Even trees which aren't getting taller are often getting thicker, so the question for a given species is whether younger or older members put on more mass for a given area. Virtually all of the non-water mass of all vegetation is carbon, and nearly all of the carbon of all vegetation (even relatively high soil carbon users like corn) comes from the air.
Yes, trees that are growing do take carbon out of the atmosphere. After they die, it gets released back. Hence mature forests are essentially carbon neutral.
Now, if we did something else with the dead wood, such as burning it instead of coal, or using it as a building material, it would be a net positive (perhaps not ultimately with the latter - nearly all wood rots eventually). Many species and ecosystems, however, are dependent upon rotting trees; removing them could have adverse effects on the ecosystem.
Whilst technically true, your statement is also misleading (if you meant to imply foxes are more closely related to cats than they are to dogs). Wolves, jackals, dogs and foxes are all Canids. Foxes are also more closely related to seals, otters, skunks, weasels, red pandas, bears and walruses than they are to cats (the Caniformia suborder contains all these, felines are in a different suborder).
You may be thinking of Hyenas, which are more closely related to cats than dogs.
cold fjord : What is your evidence that he had mental problems? He certainly had different values, but that isn't the same as being mentally ill. If anything your claim of "obvious mental problems" and that they "decided to make of show out of it for their own propaganda machine" indicates you probably don't understand what was happening.
cold fjord : So yes, it appears he may be mentally ill.
Stop trying to dispute facts that people state that disagree with your worldview without having even done very simple research, please. Please, just stop.
In the UK, truth is essentially always a valid defense.
The big difference between UK law and US law, as I can see it, is that in the UK the person who made the defamatory statement has to prove it. The defamed is under no obligation under law to say anything at all, they can just bring it to court, as long as they say it's false. The onus is on the defamer rather than the defamed, they have to show why they said it.
Also, this doesn't stop most of our newspapers reporting absolute bollocks half the time, but most of the celebrities reported upon would prefer to be in the papers than out of them, so false stories aren't challenged.
Just FYI, in Japan, it doesn't mater if it's true. You cannot post anything that would bring financial harm to a company. True facts or not, if you post negative things just to hurt a company, you're breaking the law in Japan.
If you post negative things with the intent of hurting a company, you're a bit odd anyway. If you post negative things to help other consumers make a decision between products or services, that's absolutely fine in Japanese law. If this was not the case, all Japanese reviews would be top marks every time, or be illegal.
Truth is not a mutually exclusive binary state of True / False.
Of course not. "How many integers are there between one and five (not including one and five)" is an example of a question that has a precise answer that is true, but not binary.
I don't quite understand the difficulty with the "When did you stop beating your wife?" question. It's got a blatantly false (in most cases) statement right at its heart. All it's actually asking is a timeframe, nothing else. "You used to beat your wife. When did you stop?" is clearer, but less confusing, so less popular.
It's a loaded question, and you've got to hit the assumptions, not the question.
Some people consider IPS monitors unsuitable for games requiring fast reflexes (i.e. FPSes) due to their double-digit response times. Internet latency is often worse and certainly more unpredictable than LCD monitor response time, and with Onlive, etc. it applies to audio and keyboard/controller/etc input too.
I remember playing Quake back in the day, and I had a single digit ping time with some servers (with an ISDN line), a CRT monitor, and a ps/2 mouse. It probably actually was close to proper single digit lag time between me and the monitor, and I was playing on a remote server.
Now just getting single digit lag times between me and the monitor is next to impossible, let alone if I'm playing on a remote server. I'm not sure why more people aren't more concerned about this.
To be fair, they do (now) have quite a big box telling you if the game requires additional DRM on the product page. They also have a box telling you if the game has an additional EULA. This is why I didn't buy Anno 2070 on steam, because it comes with TAGES (which can DIAF as far as I'm concerned) and 3 installations. I tried to contact Ubisoft to tell them why I didn't buy it, and why they lost a sale, but couldn't find any easy way to do so, so gave up.
Steam works for me because they offer a service. I've lost game media, and have had CDs been unable to be read. In this situation, you're in exactly the same position if the developer/publisher went tits up as if Steam went tits up. If they're still around, you sometimes have the privilege of paying for replacement media for about the same price as buying the game again would be.
It's not surprising -- it just isn't worth it for most people. To do it well, you variously need land; upkeep time; knowledge (pests you don't need, creatures you do, plant nutrition, how to harvest without doing damage, control of wastage, fertilizer issues, varietal information, home-cooking skills, canning skills); seed sources; patience; storage, fencing to control animal forage, sometimes a permit...
Yeah, not really. The knowledge is simple.
What you have to prepared for is losses. If you plant everything expecting perfect vegetables in a few months without doing anything else, you're bound to be disappointed. If you plant everything perfectly, and manicure them them perfectly, and expect perfect vegetables, you're also bound to be disappointed.
Home grown stuff has losses, always. Slugs are my nemesis with growing beans, but I grow enough of them (not much, only 10 plants or so) to make the losses less hard to bear.
In a lot of countries, it's legal for kids to drink at 16
In the UK, it's legal for kids to drink at 5, and it's perfectly legal to give 5 year olds alcohol too. They can drink in a pub if having a meal at 16, at 18 there are no restrictions.
AC GP's link does not cherry pick. If you look at the relevant graph, teenage suicide has remained relatively stable over the last 15 years. The only age group that has seen significant rises in the last 15 years is the 45-64 year old category.
One of the problems is that being able to hack into anyone's accounts is not a preserve of the intelligence agencies. Other people do, and will do it all the time.
I like my Western, secular democracy too.
Which limits exactly should our government respect, and which should they not?
I gave Microsoft about £100 8 years ago for this PC I'm writing on's operating system. Now, you can claim I'm stupid and clueless enough to have paid that money if you like, but you'll have to show me how I would have played all the games that I have done since without having bought the operating system.
What's wrong with Windows 7 that makes you want to upgrade?
I'm still running Vista, with (mostly) the same hardware I bought this system with literally 10 years ago. Directx11, stability measured by power cuts, simple to run.
However, I'm one of the few who liked Vista, and still run it (on the system I bought it with, a core 2 duo E6850, XFX 650i motherboard, and a brand new (old) gtx 470 graphics card I got off ebay for £29).
Of course going to mars is nothing like going to California. However, if you look at the success of very early north American settlement, it's possibly broadly similar, in that just about everyone died. People still wanted to go.
I can just access thepiratebay.se directly at the moment. I've got 2 ISPs, BT and TalkTalk (both in the top 6). So yes, currently as a normal UK user I can access the pirate bay directly.
I am, however, slightly confused as to why this is. It was blocked a while back.
Well, that's odd. I was just going to grab a few proxies to put up here, but it seems that http://thepiratebay.se and http://thepiratebay.to are perfectly accessible to me now. They have been blocked in the past, but are apparently not now.
I'm using BT and TalkTalk ISPs, I've got a router spreading load, so I'm not sure which connected without having a more in depth look.
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You've got to take it on a species-by-species basis. Take, for example, Sequoia Sempervirens. Right up until the trees fall down because they outgrow their root systems, older trees put on more mass and thus fix more CO2 than the same area filled to capacity with younger trees.
Then they die, and decompose, releasing nearly all that CO2 back into the atmosphere.
Even trees which aren't getting taller are often getting thicker, so the question for a given species is whether younger or older members put on more mass for a given area. Virtually all of the non-water mass of all vegetation is carbon, and nearly all of the carbon of all vegetation (even relatively high soil carbon users like corn) comes from the air.
Yes, trees that are growing do take carbon out of the atmosphere. After they die, it gets released back. Hence mature forests are essentially carbon neutral.
Now, if we did something else with the dead wood, such as burning it instead of coal, or using it as a building material, it would be a net positive (perhaps not ultimately with the latter - nearly all wood rots eventually). Many species and ecosystems, however, are dependent upon rotting trees; removing them could have adverse effects on the ecosystem.
Whilst technically true, your statement is also misleading (if you meant to imply foxes are more closely related to cats than they are to dogs). Wolves, jackals, dogs and foxes are all Canids. Foxes are also more closely related to seals, otters, skunks, weasels, red pandas, bears and walruses than they are to cats (the Caniformia suborder contains all these, felines are in a different suborder).
You may be thinking of Hyenas, which are more closely related to cats than dogs.
cold fjord : What is your evidence that he had mental problems? He certainly had different values, but that isn't the same as being mentally ill. If anything your claim of "obvious mental problems" and that they "decided to make of show out of it for their own propaganda machine" indicates you probably don't understand what was happening.
cold fjord : So yes, it appears he may be mentally ill.
Stop trying to dispute facts that people state that disagree with your worldview without having even done very simple research, please. Please, just stop.
In the UK, truth is essentially always a valid defense.
The big difference between UK law and US law, as I can see it, is that in the UK the person who made the defamatory statement has to prove it. The defamed is under no obligation under law to say anything at all, they can just bring it to court, as long as they say it's false. The onus is on the defamer rather than the defamed, they have to show why they said it.
Also, this doesn't stop most of our newspapers reporting absolute bollocks half the time, but most of the celebrities reported upon would prefer to be in the papers than out of them, so false stories aren't challenged.
Just FYI, in Japan, it doesn't mater if it's true. You cannot post anything that would bring financial harm to a company. True facts or not, if you post negative things just to hurt a company, you're breaking the law in Japan.
If you post negative things with the intent of hurting a company, you're a bit odd anyway. If you post negative things to help other consumers make a decision between products or services, that's absolutely fine in Japanese law. If this was not the case, all Japanese reviews would be top marks every time, or be illegal.
Truth is not a mutually exclusive binary state of True / False.
Of course not. "How many integers are there between one and five (not including one and five)" is an example of a question that has a precise answer that is true, but not binary.
I don't quite understand the difficulty with the "When did you stop beating your wife?" question. It's got a blatantly false (in most cases) statement right at its heart. All it's actually asking is a timeframe, nothing else. "You used to beat your wife. When did you stop?" is clearer, but less confusing, so less popular.
It's a loaded question, and you've got to hit the assumptions, not the question.
Some people consider IPS monitors unsuitable for games requiring fast reflexes (i.e. FPSes) due to their double-digit response times. Internet latency is often worse and certainly more unpredictable than LCD monitor response time, and with Onlive, etc. it applies to audio and keyboard/controller/etc input too.
I remember playing Quake back in the day, and I had a single digit ping time with some servers (with an ISDN line), a CRT monitor, and a ps/2 mouse. It probably actually was close to proper single digit lag time between me and the monitor, and I was playing on a remote server.
Now just getting single digit lag times between me and the monitor is next to impossible, let alone if I'm playing on a remote server. I'm not sure why more people aren't more concerned about this.
To be fair, they do (now) have quite a big box telling you if the game requires additional DRM on the product page. They also have a box telling you if the game has an additional EULA. This is why I didn't buy Anno 2070 on steam, because it comes with TAGES (which can DIAF as far as I'm concerned) and 3 installations. I tried to contact Ubisoft to tell them why I didn't buy it, and why they lost a sale, but couldn't find any easy way to do so, so gave up.
Steam works for me because they offer a service. I've lost game media, and have had CDs been unable to be read. In this situation, you're in exactly the same position if the developer/publisher went tits up as if Steam went tits up. If they're still around, you sometimes have the privilege of paying for replacement media for about the same price as buying the game again would be.
It's not surprising -- it just isn't worth it for most people. To do it well, you variously need land; upkeep time; knowledge (pests you don't need, creatures you do, plant nutrition, how to harvest without doing damage, control of wastage, fertilizer issues, varietal information, home-cooking skills, canning skills); seed sources; patience; storage, fencing to control animal forage, sometimes a permit...
Yeah, not really. The knowledge is simple.
What you have to prepared for is losses. If you plant everything expecting perfect vegetables in a few months without doing anything else, you're bound to be disappointed. If you plant everything perfectly, and manicure them them perfectly, and expect perfect vegetables, you're also bound to be disappointed.
Home grown stuff has losses, always. Slugs are my nemesis with growing beans, but I grow enough of them (not much, only 10 plants or so) to make the losses less hard to bear.
In a lot of countries, it's legal for kids to drink at 16
In the UK, it's legal for kids to drink at 5, and it's perfectly legal to give 5 year olds alcohol too. They can drink in a pub if having a meal at 16, at 18 there are no restrictions.
AC GP's link does not cherry pick. If you look at the relevant graph, teenage suicide has remained relatively stable over the last 15 years. The only age group that has seen significant rises in the last 15 years is the 45-64 year old category.
One of the problems is that being able to hack into anyone's accounts is not a preserve of the intelligence agencies. Other people do, and will do it all the time.
I like my Western, secular democracy too.
Which limits exactly should our government respect, and which should they not?
I gave Microsoft about £100 8 years ago for this PC I'm writing on's operating system. Now, you can claim I'm stupid and clueless enough to have paid that money if you like, but you'll have to show me how I would have played all the games that I have done since without having bought the operating system.
Make that 8 years ago.
What's wrong with Windows 7 that makes you want to upgrade?
I'm still running Vista, with (mostly) the same hardware I bought this system with literally 10 years ago. Directx11, stability measured by power cuts, simple to run.
I'm still waiting on my free upgrade from Vista.
However, I'm one of the few who liked Vista, and still run it (on the system I bought it with, a core 2 duo E6850, XFX 650i motherboard, and a brand new (old) gtx 470 graphics card I got off ebay for £29).
Of course going to mars is nothing like going to California. However, if you look at the success of very early north American settlement, it's possibly broadly similar, in that just about everyone died. People still wanted to go.
So have BT just not updated their blocks then?
It shows just how effective they were in the beginning.
What are you pissing through nowadays, then?
The dodo wasn't hunted to extinction, apparently it tasted pretty awful. Introduced pigs and dogs ate its eggs.
I'm in the UK and can access thepiratebay.se directly at the moment, using normal ISPs. I'm not sure if I should be worried.
And they wonder why all their colonies revolted
Which ones, exactly? Most British colonies got independence without revolt, or any kind of uprising.
I can just access thepiratebay.se directly at the moment. I've got 2 ISPs, BT and TalkTalk (both in the top 6). So yes, currently as a normal UK user I can access the pirate bay directly.
I am, however, slightly confused as to why this is. It was blocked a while back.
And thepiratebay.org isn't blocked either, it just forwards to thepiratebay.se .
Well, that's odd. I was just going to grab a few proxies to put up here, but it seems that http://thepiratebay.se and http://thepiratebay.to are perfectly accessible to me now. They have been blocked in the past, but are apparently not now.
I'm using BT and TalkTalk ISPs, I've got a router spreading load, so I'm not sure which connected without having a more in depth look.