This is one of my favorite games of all times. This and the original Duke Nukem. Played this about the same time as the original Lemmings, Ultima Underworld, the Humans, Lost Vikings, Civilization 1, Warlords II. What a great era. And it all played on my 386.
While a camera is often a good idea for fragile documents and old photographs, because of various optical aberrations associated with camera lenses, cameras are not necessarily a good idea for geospatial documents, where distortions can put landscape features in incorrect places. This problem is compounded if adequate reference sites no longer exist for georeferencing. To capture raw raster images of the maps, there are a number of different options including 1) physically dividing the original maps into scannable portions and merging in software (cheapest, fastest, but you lose the integrety of the original documents - not a big deal if they are almost lost already - huge deal if the existence of the physical maps themselves is of particular importance (e.g. official treaty boundary maps). ; 2) Heads-down hand digitization using a tablet and stylus (takes a long time, pain in the rear, results in vector equivalent to map); 3) hire out to a shop with large format scanner (print shops, newspaper offices, even city offices may provide these services if you ask) - University geography departments are often interested in unique problems like this - might even do the rubbersheet georeferencing for you for free.
And by quarrying the fossils in bulk sections, the geomorphic relationship is completely lost. Much, if not most of the scientifically valuable information that can be gained from a fossil site comes from the relationship of the fossils in situ to the stratigraphic setting, etc. While this may seem like news, it is just a report of the same business-as-usually destruction of valuable scientific information by paleontologists who should know better but who somehow do not know or do not care.
I don't get how restating something we already know (that cryptogamic crusts and alkaline soils are part of the carbon cycle, and that deserts, which often have both soil crusts and alkaline soil in abundance, are an important contributor), is discovering some "hidden loop." More likely is that some shmo left out or undervalued the importance of arid systems in their model.
It isn't exactly true that biofuels are carbon neutral. Just because the direct source material for the fuel did not come from sequestered carbon does not mean that it was free carbon that would have been released into the atmosphere. In a normal process, soil-sequestered carbon is turned into plants, which die and return the carbon to the soil. Biofuel releases that stored carbon into the atmosphere. Also, the use of petrochemical fertilizers can be an additional input of formerly-sequestered carbon from outside the system.
Neither analogy works very well. Although you suggest that "paytax to portion of music industry (not everyone is represented by RIAA):whether you actually wanted their music or not" is equivalent to "pay to enter Disneyland:whether you intend to enter the haunted mansion or not," or "buy swiss army knife with can opener:even if you don't need a can opener." However, there are a nubmer of ways that those anologies don't work. First, the problem is alternatives. I do not have to buy a swiss army knife to get the functionality of knife. I could buy a buck knife or spiderco, or even a leatherman in a number of different configurations and styles. I could also buy a swiss army knife without a can opener. Maybe I don't want to go to Disneyland at all, but want to visit a tea shop in LA. A download tax would require me to pay Disneyland for my cisit to the tea shop. The music tax would force my to pay Equinox even when buying a non-folding knife. Another commenter mentions bundling, but bundling is the selling of multiple products together as one. The music tax would be selling a number of sellers as if they are one. And, as well covered in other comments, RIAA isn't everyone.
Having recently lived and worked in Japan for a number of years, I don't know many people there who own TVs big enough to really matter whether they were CRT or LCD. Size just doesn't seem to be as important there as it seems to be in the States (size of our houses, size of our cars, size of our...). Other than in the big electronics stores like Best Denki and Yamada Denki, I don't remember even seeing any LCD TVs. Everyone I know (and I know a lot of people) had CRTs.
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This is one of my favorite games of all times. This and the original Duke Nukem. Played this about the same time as the original Lemmings, Ultima Underworld, the Humans, Lost Vikings, Civilization 1, Warlords II. What a great era. And it all played on my 386.
While a camera is often a good idea for fragile documents and old photographs, because of various optical aberrations associated with camera lenses, cameras are not necessarily a good idea for geospatial documents, where distortions can put landscape features in incorrect places. This problem is compounded if adequate reference sites no longer exist for georeferencing. To capture raw raster images of the maps, there are a number of different options including 1) physically dividing the original maps into scannable portions and merging in software (cheapest, fastest, but you lose the integrety of the original documents - not a big deal if they are almost lost already - huge deal if the existence of the physical maps themselves is of particular importance (e.g. official treaty boundary maps). ; 2) Heads-down hand digitization using a tablet and stylus (takes a long time, pain in the rear, results in vector equivalent to map); 3) hire out to a shop with large format scanner (print shops, newspaper offices, even city offices may provide these services if you ask) - University geography departments are often interested in unique problems like this - might even do the rubbersheet georeferencing for you for free.
And by quarrying the fossils in bulk sections, the geomorphic relationship is completely lost. Much, if not most of the scientifically valuable information that can be gained from a fossil site comes from the relationship of the fossils in situ to the stratigraphic setting, etc. While this may seem like news, it is just a report of the same business-as-usually destruction of valuable scientific information by paleontologists who should know better but who somehow do not know or do not care.
No they aren't. 0.03 of a dollar is 3 cents. 0.03 cents is $0.0003.
I don't get how restating something we already know (that cryptogamic crusts and alkaline soils are part of the carbon cycle, and that deserts, which often have both soil crusts and alkaline soil in abundance, are an important contributor), is discovering some "hidden loop." More likely is that some shmo left out or undervalued the importance of arid systems in their model.
It isn't exactly true that biofuels are carbon neutral. Just because the direct source material for the fuel did not come from sequestered carbon does not mean that it was free carbon that would have been released into the atmosphere. In a normal process, soil-sequestered carbon is turned into plants, which die and return the carbon to the soil. Biofuel releases that stored carbon into the atmosphere. Also, the use of petrochemical fertilizers can be an additional input of formerly-sequestered carbon from outside the system.
Neither analogy works very well. Although you suggest that "paytax to portion of music industry (not everyone is represented by RIAA):whether you actually wanted their music or not" is equivalent to "pay to enter Disneyland:whether you intend to enter the haunted mansion or not," or "buy swiss army knife with can opener:even if you don't need a can opener." However, there are a nubmer of ways that those anologies don't work. First, the problem is alternatives. I do not have to buy a swiss army knife to get the functionality of knife. I could buy a buck knife or spiderco, or even a leatherman in a number of different configurations and styles. I could also buy a swiss army knife without a can opener. Maybe I don't want to go to Disneyland at all, but want to visit a tea shop in LA. A download tax would require me to pay Disneyland for my cisit to the tea shop. The music tax would force my to pay Equinox even when buying a non-folding knife. Another commenter mentions bundling, but bundling is the selling of multiple products together as one. The music tax would be selling a number of sellers as if they are one. And, as well covered in other comments, RIAA isn't everyone.
Having recently lived and worked in Japan for a number of years, I don't know many people there who own TVs big enough to really matter whether they were CRT or LCD. Size just doesn't seem to be as important there as it seems to be in the States (size of our houses, size of our cars, size of our...). Other than in the big electronics stores like Best Denki and Yamada Denki, I don't remember even seeing any LCD TVs. Everyone I know (and I know a lot of people) had CRTs.