These children weren't taken because they were abused, but because of the situation they were in. Black and poor is what it boiled down to. White and poor were allowed to keep their children.
Whereas now, aboriginal children are left in abusive environments simply because removing them is seen as racist. About a year ago there was a story of a little girl who had been removed from her family for her own safety (having been raped, and contracting syphilis), and was thriving in her new, safe environment. The social workers removed her from the safe family, and put her back with her own family (where she was subsequently pack raped by locals, who beat the charge on account of the fact that the 10 year old girl *consented*), simply because her foster family was white.
So, the result of the current interpretation of the 'Stolen Generation' is a new generation of children who are abused and neglected, because taking them from their families is racist.
Sure, their waste product is hydrogen, but they still need 'food', in this case, certain sugars.
Creating these sugars is the energy intensive bit.
Of course, if TFA says, they can find/discover/developa organisms that can break cellulose down to these sugars, then things are going to get *very* interesting.
What's the deal with the razors and blades cliche? Nowadays they typically sell the handles with a couple of blades for UK £4-6 (around US $7-11 inc. VAT/sales tax).
That's not a major ripoff, but it's not especially cheap either. I mean, the "razor" (i.e. the handle!) is just a piece of metal with some rubber grips and a plastic blade attachment. They can't cost that much to make. If they weren't generally one-off purchases, I'm sure they could make pretty decent money by selling these kits alone.
The company hopes to develop closer links with the US intelligence establishment.
So that intelligence can be passed on to the CIA in a more cost effective manner, no doubt. Up until now, the spooks have had to do the fact-checking themselves...
The short answer: We probably are, but we don't know what is causing it, and it may just be a temporary trend.
And that, my friend, is the biggest gift the AGW sceptics could wish for.
"Hey! You're saying that your models are predicting that the temperature is going to keep rising, but you don't even understand what's causing the cold slump? Why should I listen to you?"
Our temperature readings prior to the IR were not quite as accurate or consistently recorded (mass-produced thermometers anyone?). This is one factor that might affect what we are observing.
There is also the fact that the monitoring devices used to track temperature are in environments that have changed. There are many instances of monitoring stations that, when first erected, were in rural areas, but are now next to nice big heatsinks^Wcarparks.
There is also geological record, which indicates many cooling and warming periods throughout the history of the Earth. We may just be experiencing a natural trend.
This is a hot-button media topic, and you see a lot of studies thrown around...many of which have questionably biased funding sources. And they all love to throw around one-sided statistics, which are the dirtiest lies that you can tell.
IMHO, don't get worked up about it. You don't need to cover your home in solar panels and go out and buy the first electric car you can find. But I think everyone should be mindful of their energy use, and try not to be wasteful. Save a little where you can, but don't horribly inconvenience yourself.
And that sounds about the best advice you could give. Don't waste, and pollute as little as possible. Listen to what the experts are actually saying, and not what the headlines are telling you.
"A scientist was once wrong so I can ignore any evidence any scientist ever produces argument".
That phenomenon gets magnified when the vocal scientists are the ones making the idiotically apocalyptic predictions to get headlines.
Take Tim Flannery, a palaeontologist who was named Australian of the Year a couple of years back.
He made prediction after prediction, that got put in newspaper headlines at the time. When they don't pan out, he gets rubbished. The problem is that his predictions were always 'going to happen in the next couple of years' and were cast in the language 'this may happen', which never gets into the headlines.
So when Perth didn't become a ghost city, or when Sydney's dams didn't dry out, his current predictions are ignored. And other people, better qualified people, are having their predictions ignored too.
When Desert Storm hit, Americans rallied and made Saddam toilet paper.
When 9/11 hit, we made Usama Bin Laden toilet paper.
Well then, why not a combo Constitution/Bill of Rights TP roll?
Marketing would be a breeze.
"Now everyone at home can find out just why the Bush Administration is so keen on using these historic documents the way they have been. You too can feel the softness of that centuries old parchment as it easily wipes away all that inconvenient crud. Watch as the paper flushes down the s-bend, just like all those rights you thought you had! Buy Constitution TP today! It may just be your last chance to see it in use!"
Muslims also have every right to be outraged at insulting comments...as you do...will you not let them speak?
Every right to be outraged at insulting comments? Sure. Let them speak. Let them tell the world just how pissed off they are. Write letters to newspapers, stage boycotts, express your views, by all means.
Don't demonstrate violently, burn down embassies and threaten lives.
im sure if one of your core beleifs was disgustingly insulted with a bunch of fallacies, you would demand a stop to it as well...after all, with freedom comes responsibility...
Nope. That's the thing about free speech. If someone says something I find insulting, I'll stop listening. I'll tell others that I didn't think it was worthwhile listening to. What I won't do, is try and stop that person from speaking.
Remember, you do not have the right to not be offended.
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What if you change your mind? Were you wrong then or are you wrong now?
These children weren't taken because they were abused, but because of the situation they were in. Black and poor is what it boiled down to. White and poor were allowed to keep their children.
Whereas now, aboriginal children are left in abusive environments simply because removing them is seen as racist. About a year ago there was a story of a little girl who had been removed from her family for her own safety (having been raped, and contracting syphilis), and was thriving in her new, safe environment. The social workers removed her from the safe family, and put her back with her own family (where she was subsequently pack raped by locals, who beat the charge on account of the fact that the 10 year old girl *consented*), simply because her foster family was white.
So, the result of the current interpretation of the 'Stolen Generation' is a new generation of children who are abused and neglected, because taking them from their families is racist.
Feed a child sugar, tie it to a treadmill, and watch the power flow!
Creating these sugars is the energy intensive bit.
Of course, if TFA says, they can find/discover/developa organisms that can break cellulose down to these sugars, then things are going to get *very* interesting.
Hello? This is slashdot! What sort of question is that to ask here?
Get charged with being an accessory...
I was merely making the point that your examples *aren't* particularly good.
Compared to the usual drivel IDiots usually spout, they are almost Einsteinian...
Male and female humans can rarely interact successfully (or at least satisfactorily).
Oh boy, are you doing it wrong!
What's the deal with the razors and blades cliche? Nowadays they typically sell the handles with a couple of blades for UK £4-6 (around US $7-11 inc. VAT/sales tax). That's not a major ripoff, but it's not especially cheap either. I mean, the "razor" (i.e. the handle!) is just a piece of metal with some rubber grips and a plastic blade attachment. They can't cost that much to make. If they weren't generally one-off purchases, I'm sure they could make pretty decent money by selling these kits alone.
Grow a beard.
I bet that would have got a swifter response...
The company hopes to develop closer links with the US intelligence establishment.
So that intelligence can be passed on to the CIA in a more cost effective manner, no doubt. Up until now, the spooks have had to do the fact-checking themselves...
The short answer: We probably are, but we don't know what is causing it, and it may just be a temporary trend.
And that, my friend, is the biggest gift the AGW sceptics could wish for.
"Hey! You're saying that your models are predicting that the temperature is going to keep rising, but you don't even understand what's causing the cold slump? Why should I listen to you?"
Our temperature readings prior to the IR were not quite as accurate or consistently recorded (mass-produced thermometers anyone?). This is one factor that might affect what we are observing.
There is also the fact that the monitoring devices used to track temperature are in environments that have changed. There are many instances of monitoring stations that, when first erected, were in rural areas, but are now next to nice big heatsinks^Wcarparks.
There is also geological record, which indicates many cooling and warming periods throughout the history of the Earth. We may just be experiencing a natural trend.
This is a hot-button media topic, and you see a lot of studies thrown around...many of which have questionably biased funding sources. And they all love to throw around one-sided statistics, which are the dirtiest lies that you can tell.
IMHO, don't get worked up about it. You don't need to cover your home in solar panels and go out and buy the first electric car you can find. But I think everyone should be mindful of their energy use, and try not to be wasteful. Save a little where you can, but don't horribly inconvenience yourself.
And that sounds about the best advice you could give. Don't waste, and pollute as little as possible. Listen to what the experts are actually saying, and not what the headlines are telling you.
"A scientist was once wrong so I can ignore any evidence any scientist ever produces argument".
That phenomenon gets magnified when the vocal scientists are the ones making the idiotically apocalyptic predictions to get headlines.
Take Tim Flannery, a palaeontologist who was named Australian of the Year a couple of years back.
He made prediction after prediction, that got put in newspaper headlines at the time. When they don't pan out, he gets rubbished. The problem is that his predictions were always 'going to happen in the next couple of years' and were cast in the language 'this may happen', which never gets into the headlines.
So when Perth didn't become a ghost city, or when Sydney's dams didn't dry out, his current predictions are ignored. And other people, better qualified people, are having their predictions ignored too.
Can we get a -1 'Deserves a Colonic Irrigation' to offset the proposed new modifier?
...we actually had a procedure defined in case an applicant showed up with parents in tow.
You need a procedure for saying, "Thanks for coming, the door's to your right, have a nice day"?
Well there's your problem. You used an amateur. Try getting a professional to do it. I guarantee you'll change your opinion.
When 9/11 hit, we made Usama Bin Laden toilet paper.
Well then, why not a combo Constitution/Bill of Rights TP roll?
Marketing would be a breeze.
"Now everyone at home can find out just why the Bush Administration is so keen on using these historic documents the way they have been. You too can feel the softness of that centuries old parchment as it easily wipes away all that inconvenient crud. Watch as the paper flushes down the s-bend, just like all those rights you thought you had! Buy Constitution TP today! It may just be your last chance to see it in use!"
If a pepper-spray enema is the cure for prostate cancer, I'll swap you your haemmorhoids...
Every right to be outraged at insulting comments? Sure. Let them speak. Let them tell the world just how pissed off they are. Write letters to newspapers, stage boycotts, express your views, by all means.
Don't demonstrate violently, burn down embassies and threaten lives.
im sure if one of your core beleifs was disgustingly insulted with a bunch of fallacies, you would demand a stop to it as well...after all, with freedom comes responsibility...
Nope. That's the thing about free speech. If someone says something I find insulting, I'll stop listening. I'll tell others that I didn't think it was worthwhile listening to. What I won't do, is try and stop that person from speaking.
Remember, you do not have the right to not be offended.