CO2 is easy to deal with. Methane in the air absorbed 16x more heat then carbon dioxide and isn't absorbed as easily by the environment. Know your science before trying to make a point
Methane does absorb more heat than CO2, I thought it was 21 times as much as CO2 but I can't be bothered to go look it up.
However, Methane is quickly broken down in the atmosphere chemically and by UV and only lasts about a decade, the released C bonds with O2 to form CO2 and the H bonds with O2 to form water, CO2 is thought to last about 20-200 years.
So its the opposite of the quote above, Methane is far more of a short term problem than CO2 is.
Wait, wait wait, if she doesn't even know what "forking" means, what the hell is she doing at a conference targeted at people who do!?
Why do pretty girls dress up as comic book characters and go to comic con? Because they are paid to.
Her job is to make a good impression for her employers with geeks, she doesn't need to be a programmer to do that.
She was there because that is where she could rub shoulders with exactly the sort of person her job needs her to make contact with... you know, the sort of person she got fired.
Copyright is a contract. It is an exchange between society and the content maker for the latter to have (limited) exclusive copying rights on the work in exchange for the content maker to actually distribute it to the general public in the first place
That would be the limited time period which keeps getting extended?
Copyright was meant to be a time limited contract between the copyright holder to monetise the copyright, and the copyrighted article reverting to public ownership... Except nothing drops out of copyright and into public ownership anymore because the time limit keeps getting extended, so the public aren't getting their side of the contract you have mentioned else where in this thread.
Personally I'm not dumping Google altogether, I'll still use search, maybe watch the occasional youtube video.
However, with iGoogle and now Google Reader going away, my reason for actually login into Google every day is rapidly deminishing. My browsers are all set to clean out all cookies and persistent data at application close so me login into my account every day is the best way google have for tracking me personally. They are gateway services, not providing much for google directly but being that first point of contact which needs login credentials for alot of people.
Only Google Mail will now need me to login and I pick that up on my phone but I still do most of my browsing via PC with no direct link from my phone to the PCs I use. Google's attempt to socialise their services just makes it harder for them to track people like me.
It gets attention, but the wrong sort, overly obnoxious ads create a negative association to both the product being advertised and website hosting the ad.
An individual that dies at 25 but has been pumping out babies since 14 is still successful where as an individual that lived until 60 but never successfully reproduced is an evolutionary dead end.
That I can believe, and I almost mentioned that in my original post but it detracted from the simplicity of the point I was trying to get across. I was starting to sound like a laywer. "This is true, unless you use this source for fertiliser and if you live away from rural areas you have to account for transportation fuel." etc.
The figure I've heard is something like 10 times more kJ in fossil fuel relative to the kJ consumed as food, as a species we literally eat fossil fuels by temporarily converting it into carrots and potatoes and beef steaks, it why I'm so afraid of peak oil, as a species since the industrial revolution we've thrived and the population has expanded well beyond the naturally sustainable population by using an energy source which almost no other animal on the planet can use. When it's gone we had better have a significant alternative to both the energy and the chemical feedstock aspects of fossil fuel because without it a lot of us are going to starve to death.
Having said that, I have an allotment plot and about 50% of my yearly calorie intake comes from a source without any fossil fuel usage, I could bump that up significantly but to do it I would need to put far more time into the plot. The equivalent of doing it as a full time job and it would be pretty much subsistance farming which isn't alot of fun.
CO2 isn't a problem, it's part of a cycle for Carbon in the biosphere. Adding significantly more Carbon to the biosphere from sources which have been locked away hundreds of millions of years in the form of CO2 is a problem.
Even if people produced more CO2 than cars to travel the same distance (which they don't) it still wouldn't be a problem because the Carbon the cyclist is using is already part of the biosphere.
One single naming scheme with a limited number of meaningful words which has to support every user/organisation/company and product globally, even if most of those thing are only relavent locally.
You're replying to the standard Super Hero worker.
He's unique, and only he can do what he does, and he mustn't take holiday because if he did, the company would fall apart... or it would prove he's not as vital as he imagines.
Don't get me wrong, people can certainly engineer themselves into that position, not documenting what they do, relying on obscure sources of information etc. They think they are engineering job security but it's just engineering a dead-end job because they can't be promoted away from their current position. Indeed, I work with one such hero in present position, everyone has simply started working around him because he's just not that good at the role... partial because of the obscure manual workflow he's setup forces change requests to take weeks instead of hours.
No one should be so vital that 2 weeks away from the office shuts down work for everyone else, if they are, then there is something seriously wrong with management.
The H1-B workers are living here, too. They pay American prices for American things too.
They live in that situation temporarily, saving as much money as possible because that money is going to buy so much more once they are back home.
They can live 8 - 12 in a rented house designed for 4 for 4 years because the end game for them is more money than they could have made in a decade at home.
But someone who is staying here permantently, lives 8 - 12 in a house designed for 4 and after 4 years he'll have saved the same dollar amount but will only be able to buy a nice car at the end of it. It's not a life changing situation for those permantently resident.
The motivation to put up with that life for 4 is different becasue of different expected outcomes.
The problem with that is that all your keystrokes go to a single Canonical controlled server and it's the server which then forwards the data to whoever it wants.
Today you sign up for Amazon getting the search queries but without any changes to your machine tomorrow they go to Facebook as well, and then the day after they all get stored by Canonical as a way of providing historical context to the searches you've made (just so they can better server your queries... nothing creepy about it).
Sure they say you are agreeing to Amazon get the search queries in all the big font agreements people are signing now but I bet the licence lets them send the data to whoever they chose to.
Just as a follow up, I did get a response from Malcolm Harbour, but he sort of glossed over the points I raised and didn't really answer anything.
He did close by saying that he thought that there are
some interest groups lobbying against the proposed amendments which I found ironic because one of the points I raised was that he seems to only being listening to lobby groups representing big business, including those outside of the EU and ignoring individuals from inside the EU, i.e. his own consituents.
His argument seems to be that small public based lobby groups bad because they seem to be lobbying against what he has already decided and large corporate lobby groups can be used and it's not an issue if he does copy and paste text.
Did MS flatline because Bill left, or was it always going to flatline around then because it MS had reached that point where it couldn't go after new markets without canniblising it's core income streams and competitors were lined up to take advantage of that.
None of them represent my region either but I've written to them anyway, technically I wrote the the worse offender Malcolm Harbour but copied in Sajjad Karim and Giles Chichester all of whom have copy and pasted over 22% of their amendments (Harbour has copied >25% of his amendments) and all of whom are members of European Conservatives and Reformists.
I don't expect an answer since none of them represent my region but I asked lots of questions about why they can't find time to think and write their own amendments, how they select which amendments they are going to copy and paste, assuming of course there is a selection criteria and not just a case of "Those spiffing nice chaps at the golf club thought we should write this".
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"This is your brain..." "And this is your brain after defaulting on an education loan..." Cut to shot of egg being smashed under a frying pan.
Methane does absorb more heat than CO2, I thought it was 21 times as much as CO2 but I can't be bothered to go look it up.
However, Methane is quickly broken down in the atmosphere chemically and by UV and only lasts about a decade, the released C bonds with O2 to form CO2 and the H bonds with O2 to form water, CO2 is thought to last about 20-200 years.
So its the opposite of the quote above, Methane is far more of a short term problem than CO2 is.
Why do pretty girls dress up as comic book characters and go to comic con? Because they are paid to.
Her job is to make a good impression for her employers with geeks, she doesn't need to be a programmer to do that.
She was there because that is where she could rub shoulders with exactly the sort of person her job needs her to make contact with... you know, the sort of person she got fired.
In the middle of the a conference, surrounded by 100s of people?
I thought home-schooled children still had to take the same standardised tests?
That would be the limited time period which keeps getting extended?
Copyright was meant to be a time limited contract between the copyright holder to monetise the copyright, and the copyrighted article reverting to public ownership... Except nothing drops out of copyright and into public ownership anymore because the time limit keeps getting extended, so the public aren't getting their side of the contract you have mentioned else where in this thread.
It was enough to put me off, the moment I realised it needed a plugin just to show it's own webpage I got rid of it quickly.
Requires Google OAuth to login, needs a firefox plugin just to display the content.
Isn't that a little bit of overkill just to provide an RSS feed?
My guess is this is another attempt at pushing people to G+
Personally I'm not dumping Google altogether, I'll still use search, maybe watch the occasional youtube video.
However, with iGoogle and now Google Reader going away, my reason for actually login into Google every day is rapidly deminishing. My browsers are all set to clean out all cookies and persistent data at application close so me login into my account every day is the best way google have for tracking me personally. They are gateway services, not providing much for google directly but being that first point of contact which needs login credentials for alot of people.
Only Google Mail will now need me to login and I pick that up on my phone but I still do most of my browsing via PC with no direct link from my phone to the PCs I use. Google's attempt to socialise their services just makes it harder for them to track people like me.
It gets attention, but the wrong sort, overly obnoxious ads create a negative association to both the product being advertised and website hosting the ad.
Wouldn't reproduction be the selection part?
An individual that dies at 25 but has been pumping out babies since 14 is still successful where as an individual that lived until 60 but never successfully reproduced is an evolutionary dead end.
Oh I know, the bit about my allotment was more to do with my current consumptions rather than my food security post peak oil.
That I can believe, and I almost mentioned that in my original post but it detracted from the simplicity of the point I was trying to get across. I was starting to sound like a laywer. "This is true, unless you use this source for fertiliser and if you live away from rural areas you have to account for transportation fuel." etc.
The figure I've heard is something like 10 times more kJ in fossil fuel relative to the kJ consumed as food, as a species we literally eat fossil fuels by temporarily converting it into carrots and potatoes and beef steaks, it why I'm so afraid of peak oil, as a species since the industrial revolution we've thrived and the population has expanded well beyond the naturally sustainable population by using an energy source which almost no other animal on the planet can use. When it's gone we had better have a significant alternative to both the energy and the chemical feedstock aspects of fossil fuel because without it a lot of us are going to starve to death.
Having said that, I have an allotment plot and about 50% of my yearly calorie intake comes from a source without any fossil fuel usage, I could bump that up significantly but to do it I would need to put far more time into the plot. The equivalent of doing it as a full time job and it would be pretty much subsistance farming which isn't alot of fun.
CO2 isn't a problem, it's part of a cycle for Carbon in the biosphere. Adding significantly more Carbon to the biosphere from sources which have been locked away hundreds of millions of years in the form of CO2 is a problem.
Even if people produced more CO2 than cars to travel the same distance (which they don't) it still wouldn't be a problem because the Carbon the cyclist is using is already part of the biosphere.
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One single naming scheme with a limited number of meaningful words which has to support every user/organisation/company and product globally, even if most of those thing are only relavent locally.
Daleks were cyborgs, they were organic sentient lifes embedded into an armoured suit.
In that respect they were more like Mobile Infantry in Starship Troopers, they just didn't bother making the suits as anthropologically shaped.
You're replying to the standard Super Hero worker.
He's unique, and only he can do what he does, and he mustn't take holiday because if he did, the company would fall apart... or it would prove he's not as vital as he imagines.
Don't get me wrong, people can certainly engineer themselves into that position, not documenting what they do, relying on obscure sources of information etc. They think they are engineering job security but it's just engineering a dead-end job because they can't be promoted away from their current position. Indeed, I work with one such hero in present position, everyone has simply started working around him because he's just not that good at the role... partial because of the obscure manual workflow he's setup forces change requests to take weeks instead of hours.
No one should be so vital that 2 weeks away from the office shuts down work for everyone else, if they are, then there is something seriously wrong with management.
They live in that situation temporarily, saving as much money as possible because that money is going to buy so much more once they are back home.
They can live 8 - 12 in a rented house designed for 4 for 4 years because the end game for them is more money than they could have made in a decade at home.
But someone who is staying here permantently, lives 8 - 12 in a house designed for 4 and after 4 years he'll have saved the same dollar amount but will only be able to buy a nice car at the end of it. It's not a life changing situation for those permantently resident.
The motivation to put up with that life for 4 is different becasue of different expected outcomes.
The problem with that is that all your keystrokes go to a single Canonical controlled server and it's the server which then forwards the data to whoever it wants.
Today you sign up for Amazon getting the search queries but without any changes to your machine tomorrow they go to Facebook as well, and then the day after they all get stored by Canonical as a way of providing historical context to the searches you've made (just so they can better server your queries... nothing creepy about it).
Sure they say you are agreeing to Amazon get the search queries in all the big font agreements people are signing now but I bet the licence lets them send the data to whoever they chose to.
Just as a follow up, I did get a response from Malcolm Harbour, but he sort of glossed over the points I raised and didn't really answer anything.
He did close by saying that he thought that there are some interest groups lobbying against the proposed amendments which I found ironic because one of the points I raised was that he seems to only being listening to lobby groups representing big business, including those outside of the EU and ignoring individuals from inside the EU, i.e. his own consituents.
His argument seems to be that small public based lobby groups bad because they seem to be lobbying against what he has already decided and large corporate lobby groups can be used and it's not an issue if he does copy and paste text.
Did MS flatline because Bill left, or was it always going to flatline around then because it MS had reached that point where it couldn't go after new markets without canniblising it's core income streams and competitors were lined up to take advantage of that.
None of them represent my region either but I've written to them anyway, technically I wrote the the worse offender Malcolm Harbour but copied in Sajjad Karim and Giles Chichester all of whom have copy and pasted over 22% of their amendments (Harbour has copied >25% of his amendments) and all of whom are members of European Conservatives and Reformists.
I don't expect an answer since none of them represent my region but I asked lots of questions about why they can't find time to think and write their own amendments, how they select which amendments they are going to copy and paste, assuming of course there is a selection criteria and not just a case of "Those spiffing nice chaps at the golf club thought we should write this".
That last one won't affect where the habitalbe zone is , only if a planet is inside or outside of the zone.